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Citizen James
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« on: October 09, 2004, 12:13:17 AM »
« edited: October 09, 2004, 12:16:07 AM by James42 »

Well, I had thought it a gaffe, but a quick check of factcheck.org shows that Bush did indeed report buisness income from a small timber buisness enterprise.

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Citizen James
James42
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« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2004, 03:15:33 PM »

LOL. You guys. Evidence that Bush won this thing: this is what's being jumped on. Unreal. Bush must not have done much wrong.

See him dig himself out of this one? I don't think average people are so blinded by partisanship as to see Bush in a hole over this. I'm still chuckling. Bush scored with that comment, 'Need some wood?'

Bush had a big old grin on his face, and acted like he busted Kerry on lying. This had better blow up big time in that liar's face. Lying to imply that Kerry is lying. He's going down.

Uh... not over 84 alleged dollars of wood. What is that anyway, a couple boards? Oh, what a riot. Now that's a lumber company, buddy. Shows how out of touch Kerry is. Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us should Kerry be elected! Smiley

Does this mean that you concede the point that most small buisnesses who file taxes as individuals actually are individuals - and most of them as 'companies' make less than 200,000 a year?

And according to the factcheck.org article, Cheney's 'buisness' was his wife's side job doing consulting - another buisness which has no other employees.

Wasn't that the orignial question, whether or not returning the tax rate for individuals making over 200,000 a year to Clinton era levels would have any signifigant effect on small buisnesses.

Kerry's plan for buisnesses is to close several tax loopholes (which are primarily abused by larger multinational companies), while lowering the tax rate for buisnesses in general (thus lowering the costs for most small buisnesses, and slightly evening the playing field against multinational corporations).
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Citizen James
James42
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« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2004, 10:38:58 PM »

Looks like they only kept the retraction until they could double check their sources.  They have removed the retraction and posted the evidence.

Now, I'm sure someone will take a look at the docs and claim that this is as reliable as CBS or the documents that proved 'without a doubt' that saddam had wmds, but this is about as close to a 'reliable source' as you can get if you're open minded and lack a security clearance.  (If you're closed minded, the only qualification for a reliable source is that it tells you what you want to hear).
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