Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:10:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Marlon Menezes Your friend Ren's comments regarding taxes and government in the US are actually dead on.
We can ship your new socialist friend Mario along with them too :-) Mario responds: Patrice, You have no idea what you have achieved here:-)) Your description of his ideas as "...the most bizarre lunatic rightist fringe stuff..." has completely discombobulated Marlon, who is normally on the verbal attack and the facts be damned, but we here see him cowed and whimpering:-)) You can see the intellectual confusion - unable to tell the difference between Ren's socialism and my Reagan-conservatism. This is what leads to such merriment among Goanet members whenever Marlon ventures out to embarrass himself:-)) Marlon wrote: Yes, our total taxes (federal income, state income, medicare, unemployment insurance, property taxes, sales taxes, capital gains taxes) easily all add up to 40-60% of one's gross income. Mario observes: "...medicare, unemployment insurance, property taxes, sales taxes, capital gains taxes"???????? Patrice had referred to income taxes, and only income taxes can get a high income earner close to a 50% rate in some states, when federal, state and local income taxes are included. Oh, I see what happened. Patrice had written I.T. which must have been confusing:-))
