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  • WSJ: Teresa's Fair Share -- How a mega-millionaire pays a lower rate than the middle class

    10/18/2004 5:16:24 AM PDT · by OESY · 34 replies · 1,780+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | October 18, 2004 | Editorial
    The Kerry campaign finally released Teresa Heinz Kerry's 2003 tax return, or rather two pages of it, late last Friday, and the story got buried next to the hardware-store ads.... ...In 2003, Mrs. Kerry -- or Teresa Heinz, as she declared herself on her IRS 1040 form -- earned $5.07 million, hardly a surprising income for someone estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion. The news is that $2.78 million of that income came in the form of tax-exempt interest from what the Kerry campaign's press release attributed to investments in "state, municipal and public entity bonds." ...On her remaining...