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A poor mother: My child's worth tax credit, too
Houston Chronicle ^
| July 8, 2003
| Margaret Gaffin
Posted on 07/09/2003 1:19:16 PM PDT by samiam1972
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Does she even pay taxes?
To: samiam1972
Does she even pay taxes?In a word?
NO
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knews hound
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:21:18 PM PDT
by
knews_hound
(Anyone else play Day of Defeat?)
To: All
50,000 people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund is then due. The team is about to mail refunds when the Congressional Democrats stopps them and decrees that they send out refund amounts based on the Democrat National Committee's interpretation of fairness. After all,if the refunds are made based on the price each person paid for the tickets, most of the money would go to the wealthiest ticket holders. That would be unconscionable! |
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:21:22 PM PDT
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To: samiam1972
It sounds as if she is nominating herself for some sort of sainthood.
To: samiam1972
I hope our congressional leaders will stop placing higher value on a child from a rich family over my daughter because I am poor
Hey life's tough. You made your own decision to have children when you couldn't afford to. How does your lack of preparation equate to me (a childless workin man) paying for your rugrat?
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:25:04 PM PDT
by
lelio
To: knews_hound
She details how much money she makes, but doesn't detail how much taxes she pays. Also, she wants her tax cut, then launches into how the tax cut is destroying the country.
To: lelio
Get this doozy:
I'd like to believe that another world is possible, a world where we have equal opportunity, and one child is not favored over another because of skin color or wealth.
To: samiam1972
"I'd like to believe that another world is possible, a world where we have equal opportunity, and one child is not favored over another because of skin color or wealth."
Maybe she should be whining to the Supreme Court. They seem to think that the color of a persons skin does matter.
To: samiam1972
What she doesn't understand is that in order for her to get a check for $400... someone else, who works just as hard as her, has to write a check to the Government to cover this expense.
There is no such thing as "Government Money"... the money comes from those folks who work and pay taxes.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:27:40 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: samiam1972
Like millions of other working people, I would have put that money right back into the economy.I'm sure you would put that money back in the economy, right after you took it from someone else's pocket.
(Unlike many millionaires, who will most likely put their $90,000 refund in the bank
Yup - putting money in a bank sure doesn't help the economy. Hopefully this moron can explain this to the small business owners who lose out when the bank no longer has the $90K in capital to lend out to them.
or spend it on stocks
Yup money spent on stocks doesn't go back into the economy. After all buying part of a business and supplying it with capital in the process has nothing to do with the economy.
or campaign contributions to keep those tax cuts coming.)
Yeah, and those campaign contributions don't go back into the economy, do they? After all, campaigners will only spend that money on having posters printed up, renting rooms in hotels, setting up phone banks, having catered meetings, renting cars - you know stuff that has nothing to do with the economy.
She lives in the richest country in the world, and this joker doesn't understand the most basic economics. No wonder she's poor.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:27:45 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: samiam1972
At the same time, the entire tax bill is expected to return an average of $90,000 a year to people making more than a million dollars a year.We always hear about how much the "rich" folks get back, but we never hear about how much they are paying into taxes.
To: samiam1972
Just another immoral person who thinks that what rightfully belongs to someone else should be taken from them at gunpoint and given to her. She and all like her should be horsewhipped.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:28:27 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: wideawake
She lives in the richest country in the world, and this joker doesn't understand the most basic economicsOr morality. She is a moral slob.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:29:51 PM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: knews_hound
She writes well. She is ignorant. She has at least one child. Does she know who the father is, and if so, what does he do to help support the child?
Her stated wish is to obtain an education so she can enter a low paying career, though she acknowledges that she would like to have plenty of money. She just wants you and me to pay for it.
To: samiam1972
It hurts when my 8-year-old daughter wants to go to the movies or even have a meal at McDonald's and I have to say, "No, Mommy can't afford it." If I had gotten a tax cut, I would spend it on the mountain of bills that face me. Like millions of other working people, I would have put that money right back into the economy.
The child can live without a movie, and she does not need to eat at McDonalds because "our children" are too fat. Why do you have a mountain of bills? Living beyond your means is my guess. Got champagne taste on a beer budget right? Yeah, you' put OUR MONEY back in the economy by going to the movies and feeding your kid big macks.
That aint how it works honey..but what would your kind know about work anyway?
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:31:30 PM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: samiam1972
"Gaffin is a part of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Community Change's Real Voices project and a volunteer at Catholic Social Services. The center, the first project of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund, is an advocacy nonprofit and think tank."
Here's your answer, NO. Where's the child's father? How much is she getting from welfare? Grants? Rent assistance?
If it's so hard for her, when does she have time to volunteer?
To: samiam1972
If she only brings in $5600 a year, then not only does she not pay taxes, she probably recieves (and is certainly eligible for) the EIC. And she wants to trash Bush because she isn't getting credit for something that she didn;t pay into? So to sum it up, she's doing the admirable thing and going to school to get her education, but then plans on going into public service where she will be damned to a lifetime of scraping by on a meager salary?? Something is wrong with this picture.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:32:47 PM PDT
by
Space Wrangler
(Now I know what it's like washing windows when you know that there are pigeons on the roof...)
To: samiam1972
samian1972
My previous post was not directed at you, but the made up persona in the article.
Roughneck
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:32:54 PM PDT
by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
To: samiam1972
Margaret you idiot!
At the same time, the entire tax bill is expected to return an average of $90,000 a year to people making more than a million dollars a year."
Obviously the "entire" tax bill isn't applicable to "people making more than a million dollars a year."
Secondly a person making a million dollars a year is paying about $390,000 a year in Federal Income Taxes. Guess where your school, and your non-profits and other benefits are coming from. Who is paying for your child care? Let's see, school full time, work part time, Washington, D.C.-based Center for Community Change's Real Voices project and a volunteer at Catholic Social Services. If you sleep or eat, your kid can't see much of you.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:34:09 PM PDT
by
Positive
To: samiam1972
Ms Gaffin needs some priority action. If you're only making 10Gs and trying to raise a child you shouldn't be volunteering at any NPOs, spend that time down at McDonald's earning some money. When you're incomes actually gets to the point where you pay taxes then you can volunteer and help others, until then there's better uses for your time.
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posted on
07/09/2003 1:34:50 PM PDT
by
discostu
(you've got to bleed for the dancer)
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