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Middle Class Said To Pay Higher Tax Rate Than Heinz Kerry And Kerry 
Oct 11 2004
Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, writes in the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Monday: "According to the Kerrys' own tax records, and they have not released all of them, the couple had a combined income of $6.8 million in income last year and paid $725,000 in income taxes. That means their effective tax rate was a whopping 12.8%.... "Under the current tax system the middle class pays far more than the Kerry tax rate. In fact, the average federal tax rate -- combined payroll and income tax -- for a middle-class family is closer to 20% or more. George W. and Laura Bush, who had an income one- tenth of the Kerrys', paid a tax rate of 30%. ...

"Here is the man who finds clever ways to reduce his own tax liability while voting for higher taxes on the middle class dozens of times in his Senate career. He even voted against the Bush tax cut that saves each middle-class family about $1,000." The Kerrys "have unwittingly made the case for what George W. Bush says he wants to do: radically simplify and flatten out the tax code. ... So before John Kerry is given the opportunity to raise taxes again on American workers, shouldn't he and Teresa at least pay their fair share?"
And just because this goes so well with this story, and it is Monday, and you might need a laugh, via email from a friend of mine (Princess)----The Webmistress

This is MY story of BELIEVING again!!

There once was a time of darkness in my life. A time when all things
seemed a fantasy of the past. I no longer believed in all the wonderful things
that had been in my childhood. In the adult world there was no Santa and no
Easter Bunny. Life had become very depressing. There were no real joys to
look forward to.

Then suddenly----I saw the light!!! My hopes were raised up from the
bottomless pit of despair. I once again became a BELIEVER!! I now know
for sure that there is a Tooth Fairy!! I have no doubts that Santa is for
real!! I relish in anticipation of the Easter Bunny, once again coming to my house
on Easter!
There is new hope in my life! There are dreams that I can again live! I can
once more search for the end of the rainbow---and perhaps have the chance
to dance around it's pot of gold with the leprechauns.!! Yes!! Yes!!! Each day
is again full of life!!!
And where did this new hope come from you ask? Where did this ray of
sunshine, in an otherwise deep and darkening forest, appear from?

It appeared on TV one night-----from a magical show. Something called the
Democratic Convention!!! A wonderful Wizard by the name of Kerry exploded
onto my television screen and brought hope into my otherwise dismal life.

YES!! I can once again BELIEVE!!! I believe in the Tooth Fairy again!! I
believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny!!

I believe that soon I will have FREE health care and FREE medicine. I
believe that my taxes will be reduced--if not eliminated. I believe there
will no longer be poverty to witness. I believe there will be a chicken
in every pot and a car in every garage. I believe housing will be affordable for
EVERYONE and communities will be rid of thugs and robbers and they will be
replaced with happy and caring people. I will want for nothing. I believe I will
live in a world of happiness and dance amongst the fairies. My friends will all
have wonderfully high paying jobs and lots of money left each week to enjoy
life with. I believe that there will be smaller schoolroom classes for
children--and that each child will get the special attention that they
need, and have been so desperately seeking. I believe that over the next four years, so much
money will be appropriated, that cures will be found for all the diseases
in the world. I believe that the people of the world will all come together and
hug one another, as one big happy family. And with all the love they produce
there will no longer be room for terrorists. But most of all---

I BELIEVE THAT IT WILL NEVER COST ME A PENNY!!! The evil rich people will
pay for it all. Kerry told me so!!

YES!!! YES!!! Kerry has once again made me able to BELIEVE in FAIRY
TALES!!! I feel as if a thousand pounds of weight has been lifted off of
my shoulders. I am again dancing amongst the fairies!