From: Steve Ewing 

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:23:56 -0500, Mark Hessey  wrote:

> A family of 4 used to start paying taxes at about $30K, under Bush they
> owe nothing until exceeding about $40K, for about $1100 in savings for
> that $40K family and of course, none under that level pay any taxes at
> all. Kinda
> tough to give them a bigger cut than that, but maybe Kerry can convince
> them with some smoke and mirror program promises ...

I got a *great* tax break.  With just my wife and I, filing jointly, and
even with her working for the first time in years, our Federal tax
liability came to $77.  And even that was due only to the penalty I took
 from cashing in my 401(K).

Of course, it was necessary for me to cash in because I was unemployed for
10 months.  And which is why my wife had to start working again.  And
though I *did* get a job, eventually, doing almost exactly the same thing I
was doing when laid off (actually a bit more), I took a $7500 pay cut, and
glad to get it.  All in all, I would rather have paid the taxes.

(All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.  Pop quiz: source?)

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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