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The Top 4 Candidates vs. Your Paycheck, Who Wins ?
Yahoo Finance via CNN Money ^ | Feb 4,2008 | Jeanne Sahadi

Posted on 02/05/2008 7:48:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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Start planning your finances for any eventualities.
1 posted on 02/05/2008 7:48:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Plan B: http://www.livinginthephilippines.com


2 posted on 02/05/2008 7:49:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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The Top 4 Candidates vs. Your Paycheck, Who Wins ?

The IRS.
3 posted on 02/05/2008 7:51:33 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL isn’t the Philippines taken over by Islamists?


4 posted on 02/05/2008 7:51:50 PM PST by Terriergal ("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a stupid headline. Who wins? Who has always won, the Gestapo known as the IRS.


5 posted on 02/05/2008 7:52:06 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Mitt Romney Huckabee
6 posted on 02/05/2008 7:52:22 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: SeekAndFind
hold your wallets no matter who wins

when they scream fairness we should run

7 posted on 02/05/2008 7:53:43 PM PST by GeronL (when someone tells you they have a Fair (fill in the blank) Plan, you need to run away holding your)
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To: SeekAndFind
But no one has an appealing way to pay for fixing [the AMT].

Appealing to whom? I have an appealing way to fix it, abolish it.

8 posted on 02/05/2008 7:54:22 PM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: JoJo Gunn

Honestly folks,

Your one liners are funny and interesting...

But, I’d be curious to read your opinions/analysis as to who among the 4 is the least economically damaging or most tax payer friendly in terms of their tax policies.


9 posted on 02/05/2008 7:55:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey, for the smart investor administrations like Carters are buying opportunities in the making. Real estate values plummet and cash is king.

Look for lower and middle income houses with Huckabee, McCain or Romney signs or stickers on the cars, just to drive home the lesson.

10 posted on 02/05/2008 7:56:46 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course we know who wins. It’s the one they don’t talk about. The most Un American agency in the US known as the IRS


11 posted on 02/05/2008 7:57:06 PM PST by enuf
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To: Man50D

Whoever wins, we lose.


12 posted on 02/05/2008 7:58:00 PM PST by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: SeekAndFind

Romney.

Next question.


13 posted on 02/05/2008 8:00:47 PM PST by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is a catastrophe.)
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To: 11th_VA

Haha! After tonight I am thinking the same thing.


14 posted on 02/05/2008 8:01:28 PM PST by RKB-AFG (1133)
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To: SeekAndFind

The most ironic thing is that if one of the ‘candidates’ ensures my healthcare availability via universal healthcare, this ‘top 1%’ wage earner will have absolutely no reason to keep working and paying taxes so that other’s don’t have too.


15 posted on 02/05/2008 8:11:24 PM PST by Ethrane ("semper consolar")
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To: Terriergal

No, most of the Philippines is Roman Catholic, actually. Only a few Southern islands are Muslim.


16 posted on 02/05/2008 8:20:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s like asking: Do you want to be beheaded, hung by the neck, go before a firing squad or gassed? There are no good choices when it comes to Juan McAztlan/Gomer Pyle vs. Shrillary/Osama.


17 posted on 02/05/2008 8:23:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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...I’d be curious to read your opinions/analysis as to who among the 4 is the least economically damaging or most tax payer friendly in terms of their tax policies.

It's no contest. From their promises and position papers, you must give the title to the world champion panderers and promisers, the Democrats.

What, part of the competition is that you expect the candidate to actually deliver on their promises? Well, that's different. I'm still waiting for the Middle class tax cut Bill promised me in 1990. And this "donut" concept Obama is throwing out? I can imagine what the hole in the middle is for - you and me.

Not that the Republicans are much better. They promise much less, but then they deliver it.

In short, this thread is a fool's errand. There is no surplus for anyone to give back to the taxpayer any more - only debts and obligations. There are no quick fixes, no easy answers. None of the candidates even pays lip service to "limited government" any more. "None of the Above" has the best shot for my vote.

18 posted on 02/05/2008 8:33:55 PM PST by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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I heard Costa Rico, is a nice (warm/low cost/internet ready/reasonably honest) place to live.....nice enough for 4 years, starting in Jan. '09.....w/frequent quick trip(s) to Miami.
19 posted on 02/05/2008 9:02:20 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, don't mean "they" aren't out to get you...OURs' hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
Concerns about who is the least evil spender of the main presidential candidates would probably be greatly alleviated if the people pressed the following issue with each of them.

Regardless of their plans to change federal spending in some way, most of the candidates are unthinkingly carrying on the unconstitutional federal spending practices started by FDR. This post (<-click), in another tax related thread, attempts to explain how FDR's disdain for 10th A. protected state powers created an environment where most presidential candidates have irresponsibly ignored their oaths to defend the Constitution by proposing federal spending programs based on non-existent federal government powers.

In fact, Obama, followed by Clinton, have actually been ranked by some observers as the first and second of the big-time spenders respectively for '08 spending proposals.

Big-shot federal spenders
Regardless that the above referenced page shows John McCain is a "small potatoes" spender when compared with Obama and Clinton, he is undoubtedly disregarding constitutional spending restraints like the others are.

Again, people need to wise up to the very serious problem of a federal government that is not operating within the restraints of the Constitution, particularly where high taxation as a consequence of unauthorized spending is concerned. The people need to get in the faces of spending-happy presidential candidates and make them commit to making the federal government once again operate within constitutional spending restraints. (The Democrats might as well go home.)

20 posted on 02/05/2008 9:21:21 PM PST by Amendment10
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