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Measure would eliminate tax exclusion for Americans abroad By Elizabeth Olson/IHT (IHT) Saturday, May 17, 2003 WASHINGTON: A provision to eliminate the income-tax exclusion for American wage earners overseas was in the Senate version of the tax package approved late Thursday, and its future could be decided within days when congressional negotiators are to begin hammering out the final bill. Repealing the income tax break, which allows each American worker to exclude $80,000 in income in calculating U.S. taxes, is not in the House of Representatives' $550 billion package, passed this month. Reconciling the two very different versions will be...

Greater Bethel AME Church (African Methodist Episcopal) 140 Rose St Athens 706/548-0014 Pastor: David T. Batts PROFILE OF PASTOR BATTS Over the weekend, the philandering adulterer daddy and race-baiting poverty pimp, Rev. Jesse Jackson, used the pulpit at the Greater Bethel AME Church in Athens, Georgia for a RAT partisan diatribe. Why is that church, that is using the pulpit to promote RAT political interests, allowed to retain its tax-exempt status? Why is it exempt from property tax? It is absolutely an arm of the RAT party. That is fine, however, they should pay for it. I tried calling the...

Tell Congress No to War on Iraq September 27, 2002 Congress is expected to vote soon on a resolution giving the Bush administration extremely broad authority to use military force against Iraq. Please contact your senators and representatives and urge them to stand firm against the Bush administration's warmongering. Background: For the past few weeks, the nation and the world have focused on what appears to be an impending war on Iraq. The Bush administration now seems poised to turn its saber rattling into action. However, while Bush & Co. prepare to rush off to war, questioning voices grow louder...

April 30, 2002 Dear friend of liberty, Let's level the playing field. Why can Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton preach politics from the pulpit, present political candidates in the chancel, and advocate socialism in the sanctuary without losing their tax exempt status, yet conservative and libertarian Christians and Jews cannot preach, present or advocate their political opinions or candidates in a church or synagogue without scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service? In recent years, liberal religious leaders chafing at the emerging power of conservative Christians and Jews have sent letters to churches and synagogues threatening to turn them in...

After the visas-for-terrorists debacle, the folks at SUBINTSOC.NET (who claim to have special access to federal computer systems) have blown the lid off half a dozen other examples of government incompetence: "Think the recent terrorist attacks were a wake-up call for the U.S. government? Think again. Last week, the world learned that the Immigration and Naturalization Service had sent out visa-approval letters to hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi -- six months to the day after September 11! "Using our special access to ARPAnet, we decided to see what other notices had been mistakenly mailed out by government agencies. We...