From: crwlrjeff@yahoo.com   
      
   "Clave"  wrote in message   
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   > "Jeff Strickland"  wrote in message   
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   >> "Clave"  wrote in message   
   >> news:I9Kkr.23923$Ex1.4574@newsfe18.iad...   
   >>> "jim" <"sjedgingN0Sp"@m@mwt,net> wrote in message   
   >>> news:ELSdncJGQvZP9A7SnZ2dnUVZ_u2dnZ2d@bright.net...   
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   >>>> Jeff Strickland wrote:   
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   >>>>> >> Not if the topic as per the Subject Line is INCOME TAX AMENDMENT   
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   >>>>> > The topic is not a license to misrepresent the facts.   
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   >>>>> I was not misrepresenting the facts. I said, "10% of tax payers pay   
   >>>>> 70% of   
   >>>>> all taxes,"   
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   >>>> Here is what you actually said:   
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   >>>> "70% of the total taxes are collected from 10% of taxpayers."   
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   >>> Which, in a thread clearly about income tax, serves no purpose but to   
   >>> disingenuously distract and muddy the discussion, which was clearly his   
   >>> intention.   
   >>>   
   >>> His statements about people not paying ANY taxes weren't simply   
   >>> misrepresentations, they were outright lies.   
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   >>> Jim   
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   >> It's pretty close to being 100% truth. It turns out that the bottom 50%   
   >> of INCOME tax payers paid something like 2.25% of the income tax   
   >> receipts. More of an exageration than an outright lie...   
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   > What pigshit.  If you'd wanted to talk about income taxes you'd have   
   > talked about income taxes.   
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   > Jim   
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   What?!   
      
   The Subject Line is INCOME TAXES. The topic is income taxes. I replied to a   
   topic, I did not initiate it.   
      
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