Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On April 16, 2019 at 6:49 PM archer75--- via Mercedes > wrote: > > > Back in the late '40s a wealthy man told me he was unhappy about spending the > winter in Florida (his wife loved it) but he might as well because he only > made six cents on the dollar if he stayed and worked in New York

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
IIRC, the max tax rate when Eisenhower was president was just over 90% - so it could have been 94% - but only over a certain amount - no idea what that was. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 5:50 PM archer75--- via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Back in the late '40s a wealthy man told me he wa

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Back in the late '40s a wealthy man told me he was unhappy about spending the winter in Florida (his wife loved it) but he might as well because he only made six cents on the dollar if he stayed and worked in New York; Wall Street I seem to remember. Do you know what the tax rate for the wealthy

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
gt; Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:23 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Mitch Haley > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu > > Once upon a time, we didn't have income taxes. > We ran the entire government on import tariffs, such as our fr

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
I know I am...Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: April 16, 2019 11:10 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: maontin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu Mitch wrote: > Then ... we decided to Tax The Rich. WE **MUST** be r

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Mitch wrote: > Then ... we decided to Tax The Rich. WE **MUST** be The Rich?? tin ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/m

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Mitch wrote: > Then ...Tax The Rich. WE **MUST** RICH ?? tin ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Mitch wrote: > Then ... we decided to Tax The Rich. WE **MUST** be rick?? tin ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/merce

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Oh, it wasn't US tariffs we caught them dodging, it was Nigerian tariffs. I'm not sure why we're spending our money prosecuting that, wouldn't it have been easier to just tell Nigeria what they were doing and let the Nigerians prosecute it? Mitch. > On April 16, 2019 at 6:55 AM Buggered Benzmai

Re: [MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Once upon a time, we didn't have income taxes. We ran the entire government on import tariffs, such as our friends importing 'junk' luxury care are accused of evading. Then in 1913, we decided to Tax The Rich. Those with incomes over 500k (in 1913 dollars) had to pay income tax. The bottom t

[MBZ] Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu

2019-04-16 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
The men — Tolulope Rahman Salam and Ibrahim Shehu — allegedly claimed to be shipping old and damaged cars from the Port of Charleston when, in fact, they were exporting a pair of Mercedes sedans, a BMW X5 SUV and a Bentley https://www.postandcourier.com/business/trump-s-trade-war-prompts-greater