Ya see how I transposed the word "searched" with "googled?" Whoops.
On another topic, I was in a Microsoft store the other month, and the guy helping me was a bit affronted when I automatically just went to "google", not recognizing "bing." Are they all the same? ________________________________ From: Denise Evans <dmevans...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: US protesters rally to occupy Wall Street Years ago, as a teenager, I subscribed to Mother Jones. I hid it from my family, as the line from my family was "Denise, we come from a long line of Republicans." They sent me right-wing extremist newsletters, books, articles for years. Last night, I got the panic call from my daughter in college who is taking a Mass Communications class and put off her first paper until 5 hours before the deadline. The paper was on Leslie Moonvez, the CEO of CBS Corporation. So, in attempting to help her and get her perspective with substance, I went to Slate and googled CBS. Lo and behold (or is it "low and behold" - tee hee), there was a well-written article that provided some good background information for her. Another little gift from FFL :) Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living! - Mother Jones My father's wife last year was all up in arms last April about the "double taxation" issue, which is one "reason" being batted around for the rich shouldn't have to pay any more taxes....this article puts some of that in perspective, but I'm interested in that topic. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/17/the-dual-taxation-meme/ ________________________________ From: authfriend <jst...@panix.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:43 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: US protesters rally to occupy Wall Street Kevin Drum of Mother Jones makes another good point in a blog post: "...Obama's point isn't that millionaires pay lower tax rates than truck drivers. It's that some millionaires pay lower tax rates than truck drivers — and as a simple matter of fairness and equity they shouldn't. Take a look at the table below, extracted from the Tax Policy Center. It doesn't just show the tax rates of mere millionaires, it shows the tax rates of the top 400 super-duper millionaires. Back in 1992, only 33 of them paid less than 20% of their income in federal taxes. Today, 289 of them do. That's just not right. "On Fox News, they brush this off with a yawn. 'It's because most of their income comes from capital gains,' they repeat tirelessly, as if that was sufficient explanation all by itself. But why? Surely even trust fund babies ought to pay some kind of minimum tax rate no matter where their income comes from. Is a 20% tax floor on the income of the rich really so outrageous?" http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/09/lies-damn-lies-and-average-tax-rates --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans <dmevans365@...> wrote: > > I read the whole thing, actually.  It's a good read in that it is quite > accessible to the masses. > > > ________________________________ > From: authfriend jstein@... > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:28 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: US protesters rally to occupy Wall Street > > >  > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans dmevans365@ wrote: > > > > Thank you Judy for forwarding the whole article and encouraging > > reader integrity on what the article really said. > > My pleasure, but that was just one piece of the article. > The whole thing is worth reading; quite a bit of good > info. It *isn't* all that simple, which makes it easier > to twist. It's important to know the ins and outs. > > > > > And, thank you Nabby? for sending the link to the Wall Street protest. > >  Loved seeing it. > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: authfriend jstein@ > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:07 PM > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: US protesters rally to occupy Wall Street > > > > > >  > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams" <willytex@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Bhairitu: > > > > And millionaires are whining today about Obama's > > > > plan to tax the rich more. > > > > > > > And, anyone that can add is laughing at Obama's plan > > > to 'tax the rich'! > > > > > > "In terms of averages, the current tax system already > > > satisfies the Buffett Rule. Americans on average pay > > > 16% of their total income in federal income and payroll > > > taxes, while millionaires pay an average of 20.1%, > > > according to the Tax Policy Center..." > > > > Here's the rest of that section, which Willytex carefully > > left out: > > > > "But averages mask the Buffett phenomenon. (See why some > > millionaires end up owing no tax at all) > > > > "For most people, wages make up a majority of their income, > > so when they get a raise their average tax rate may go up, > > said Diane Lim Rogers, chief economist at the Concord > > Coalition, a deficit watchdog group. > > > > "But millionaires typically have several sources of income -- > > some taxed at lower rates than others, if at all. So it's > > entirely possible that their effective tax rate can fall as > > their income goes up if they start to get less money from > > wages and more from, say, tax-preferred or tax-free > > investments." > > > > > > > > 'Buffett Rule: Not so simple' > > > CNN Money: > > > http://tinyurl.com/3jypgcf > > > > > >
