On 07-16-09, BOB KLAHN said to SELF:


BK>Just so you all can know of my good fortune. I may get around to
BK>replying... someday...


BK>Microsoft Corporations
BK>Customer Service
BK>Your Batch No: 2009/281/MCS
BK>Your Reference No: BALS/L193/2810


BK>OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION.


BK>We are pleased to inform you of the release of the long awaited results of
BK>Sweepstakes promotion organized by Microsoft, in conjunction with the
BK>foundation


BK>for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held this July 2009, in


BK>Spain. Where in your email address emerged as one of the online Winning
BK>emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of
BK>250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros) and a Dell laptop.


Well.........lets see;


Taken with his income from his employer.....this puts him over and above B.
Hussein Obama's $250,000 upper limit; which means his taxes will go up.


Not only that....being a good Catholic, he'll owe $25,000 of that to the Lord
right off the top. And then of course.....there's the taxes on it, right
around 38 or 40%....somewhere between 95,000 and 100,000.


So that leaves around....say $125,000.


Too bad......the following tax period, the government is gonna think he's in
the upper brackets, and when his reported income is shy $250,000, they're
gonna think he's trying to cheat and he'll get heavily audited!


He better keep all his reciepts.....and take lots of potato chips with him to
the IRS office, too.




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