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The 400 richest Americans used to pay 30% of their income on the average to Uncle Sam. Today, they pay 18% on the average. The main reason for the drop in their tax rate of some 40% is the tax cuts by George Bush in 2003, taking the rate paid on dividends and capital gains down to 15%.

For those of you who followed my every word raptly (sarc) and wondered where I went--I'm back. Moved from NJ to SC and already saving tons of money. I hope "sickoflibs" picks this up and adds me to his list of "regulars". It's so good to be back. Especially given the conservative tidal wave overtaking the country. Come on November!!

I love living in the United States and love political debates! We had an important senate election here and I proudly chose Scott Brown for senate because Martha Coakley was totally clueless and incompetent. I looked at both candidates for president carefully. John McCain is a true military hero and even worked across the aisle on McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman and McCain-Kennedy. Thry were three very good bills. However, McCain is anti-choice, anti-gay and too pro-gun. Barack Obama was short on experience, but I liked his postions on many issues except for the middle east and he's not agressive enough on the...

Its on Oregon voters fire first shots at the rich, The rich are trenched in and planning a stunning blow to the hungry,homeless,lifetime welfare class. Many of the rich are warm and comfortable in there homes and offices, they plan on getting signatures to bring the fatal blow in the conflict. The weapon of legislation by way of proxy. The money is coming in and soon the ballet box will be stuffed with ballots on them a law stopping all funding of welfare funding. Welfare troops are having a hard time focusing due to not having a leader to tell...

A good deal of what is posted on FR is based on misreading of the facts or outright xenophobia. Anyone who speaks on this subject should have some facts and understanding of the issues and solutions. Karl Rove did this in December 2006. The You Tube presentation at CSPAN can be found: HERE.

I often wondered what exactly makes a FReeper a FReeper? Is it the simple act of reading articles on FR? Do you have to post articles or replies? To call yourself a FReeper do you need to engage in effective activism like writing letters to politicians, getting out in the street to carry signs, or, is being a FReeper an attitude. If so, what attitude is that? Knock yourself out.

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The suspected gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, Cho Seung-Hui, was a troubled 23-year-old senior from South Korea who investigators believe left an invective-filled note in his dorm room, sources say. The note included a rambling list of grievances and ended with the words "Ismail Ax" in red ink on the inside of one of his arms.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2101084__________________________ az chela (827 posts) Sun Sep-10-06 07:21 PM Original message I received a very unsettling email today from Cindy Sheehan Edited on Sun Sep-10-06 08:20 PM by az chela She said that people now are saying the she is irrelevant and unimportant!!!! Since I love Cindy dearly this breaks my heart. She took on the bush administration with no support except her great desire to stop the war and get rid of the current evil administration.Last year she spent almost the entire year traveling all over the world to tell people the truth about bushco.Before that no one gave...

I’m sure many of you are too young, and the rest of you probably don’t remember the moment when Senator McCarthy’s putrid career came to an end. I remember it as if it were yesterday; I was a college student at Northeastern University, a cooperative college where you work at a course-related job for several weeks and then go to school for several weeks. I happened to be working at my co-op job at Dennison Manufacturing Company in Framingham, Massachusetts, where the company maintained a recreation area for their employees. We were at lunch watching the Army-McCarthy hearings on TV...

Can you believe that folks actually donate money to The Free Republic.com censors/cheerleaders, when they could otherwise donate to impoverished kids! I posted the first 3 paragraphs of my home page on 10-7-05 at around 6:30 am, with a fresh identity, using treasury as the link source, at freerepublic.com. The thread was pulled in about 5 minutes and my posting privilages revoked. The first reply suggested that Europe had a debt problem as well, to which I replied that the DX might indicate that they might not be increasing their money supply as fast as we are and included a...

Give me one reason why "judicial extraordinaire" Harriet Miers is qualified to sit on the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court. One.

This thread has been pulled. Pulled on 07/23/2005 10:40:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: Censorship Goodbye FreeRepublic,I'm off to Liberty Post. It was good while it lasted........Please ban me NOW Jim!

How do prevent the stop-n-go jihad that is currently going on in London from happening here? Should we have an El Al if-you're-a-Muslim-you-don't-ride standard for our planes and trains? At the very least will those traveling on subways in this country have to carry their things in mesh, see-through carry bags like they do in many public high schools-- in reaction to Columbine-- in this Country? Clearly, their are many terror cells, native and foreign born , in this country. Monitoring mosques, forbidding muslims entry into certain engineering programs at our universities, massive deportations of problem muslims and ,gasp, a...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3771802 bpilgrim (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-02-05 03:55 PM Response to Reply #19 29. the OCCUPYING INVADERS are raping TORTURING and MURDERING civilians ________________________ More gems from that same thread: _______________________ ET Awful (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-02-05 03:55 PM Response to Reply #19 26. The point my myopic little friend is that if the US forces were not there bombing the living piss out of everything that moves, there would not be an insurgency. There would be nothing for them to insurge against. Is that clear enough for you? ____________________________ Grooner Five (189 posts) Thu Jun-02-05 03:59 PM Response to Reply...

I wonder if the rules on this forum are applied equally? Several weeks ago I was denied posting privileges because I jokingly advocated a "plan b" in fighting the so far failed war on illegal immigration. My "plan b" was to have border guards retreat to within 200 yards of the border and while fitted with night vision goggles simply drop any illegals attempting to gain access to America. Now frankly I am not concerned with the fact I was denied posting privileges for a day(reason given was "advocating violence")but I wonder if the folks who post pictures of exploding...

Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Mon May-09-05 01:56 PM Original message *GAG* I Just Saw That Hideous, Vile Wretch ANNE COULTER On the STREET!!! Edited on Mon May-09-05 01:57 PM by Beetwasher I was walking back to my office during lunch and she was checking into a hotel on 48th between 3rd and Lex, she was on the sidewalk, directing a hotel porter and talking on her celphone. I saw her as I was about 30 feet away and was like "Damn, it's that hideous, vile wretch Anne Coulter!". I debated saying something but decided it wasn't worth it. GAG!! My eyes!!!...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3621959 slackdude (273 posts) Mon May-09-05 01:45 AM Original message Interview with the Coulter Heckler I'm sure you've all heard about Ajai Raj, the guy who was arrested for heckling Ann Coulter in Texas. Well I just posted an interview I conducted with him on my blog. Enjoy: http://jasonbuckley.com/blog/2005_05_08_archive.html#111561617390846001 Freedom_from_Chains (1000+ posts) Mon May-09-05 02:16 AM Response to Original message 2. Check out some of the hate mail this guy got. http://www.jasonbuckley.com/blog/ajai_hatemail.html

<p>What is this palce? Are you peeple for reel? Is this some kind of joke?</p>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3286878 RememberTheCoup (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-17-05 08:06 AM Original message Why SHOULDN'T siblings be allowed to "marry" or enter civil unions? Why do we so often hear about such a situation as a "slippery slope" result of allowing same sex unions? Why does a marriage/civil union have to imply a sexual relationship? Almost all of the rights and responsibilities of marriage are economic or legal in nature and not sexual. "Right of consortium" is one of the few I can think of that are sexual in nature. What if a man with a wife and a couple of small children...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3202628 LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-01-05 10:27 PM Original message Come on Iraqis! KICK OUT those OCCUPIERS! Get with the new & revised many times bush Doctrine! All OCCUPIERS must be KICKED OUT of the ME! Heh! RW Americans; stupidest MFers on the planet. _____________________________ sparosnare (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-01-05 10:30 PM Response to Original message 1. but...but....we're not occupiers, we're liberators! That's why we went to war - to liberate those poor downtrodden people from the evil dictator Saddam. We're spreading democracy! (sarcasm off) __________________________________ mermaid (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-01-05 10:35 PM Response to Reply #1 2. Democracy My...