[Polybius]

More than half her income was tax-exempt.

So is the $550 million principal of the fortune Teresa Heinz inherited tax-free and John Kerry married tax-free.

This couple, who is worth $550 million dollars and who call two-income families earning over $200,000 "the wealthiest Americans" paid 0.145 percent of their total wealth in taxes for 2003.

Less than fifteen hundredth of a single percent of their total wealth in Federal taxes for 2003. That's it.

Is it any wonder that these people could not care less about raising the income taxes on hard-working couples?

Income taxes only significantly impact workers and not the truly wealthy such as Teresa Heinz and John Kerry.

[The Great Yazoo]

I'd go for a sales tax if we had assurance it would replace federal estate and income tax and not, in Democratese, "supplement" them.