TAX CUT SNIFF TEST

Tax-Cut Endgame

Congress Reaches Tentative Tax-Cut Deal

President Supports House Tax Bill

House GOP accepts $350 billion tax cut

Agreement close on tax cut bill

House, Senate Reach $383 Billion Tax Cut Agreement

Congress Tax Package Said to Total $382.8 Billion

Plan for Overseas Tax Increase Dropped - US corporations fought back against this idea because they would have ended up paying those extra taxes on behalf of employees stationed abroad or else be unable to find anyone to take on those assignments.

Bayh�s vote for tax cut vexes Dems - Both parties have their defectors from the standard playbooks. 

70B gaffe in Senate tax plan - Who cares?  The methodology they use to analyze proposed effects (static scoring) has been proven to be nothing more than WAGs (wild ass guesses) anyway.

House G.O.P. Leaders Agree to Eliminate Dividend Tax

Tax-Cut Victory Is at Hand. Congress has work to do, but the pro-growth future is bright.

There are harmful tax increases in the Senate tax package.

Permanent or not, these tax cuts will help.

The scent of pork -The true reason for the budget deficit; out of control spending by our rulers.

House GOP Targets Waste, Fraud In Government Programs - So far, it's been all talk & no actual action.

Warren Buffett's Marxist View of the World

Coring the Apple - The massive tax hikes in New York are going to be the equivalent of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, as those high income earners who are being targeted for fiscal rape decide to leave the Empire State.

Tricky Dick  - Since Roth IRAs were first introduced into the tax game about five years ago, I have consistently expressed my concern over relying on them very much because they only make economic sense if we can trust our rulers in DC to honor their promise regarding their tax free pay-outs.  I have always had big problems advising anyone to give up current tax breaks, such as with conventional deductible IRAs, in exchange for some promised tax break ten, twenty or thirty years down the road.  Since the beginning, I predicted that our rulers would pull the same switch on Roth IRAs as they did with Social Security, and tax payouts for anyone who is considered to be evil rich, such as anyone with more than $25,000 of income per year, as it is for SS.  Rather than wait to stick it to Roth savers, one of our least favorite Socialist Congress-Critters, Dick Gephardt of St. Louis, is already proposing a radical change in the allowable retirement plans, including full taxes and penalties on those who used Roth IRAs. The scariest thing is that, among all of the DemonRat presidential wannabes, Little Dick Gephardt is considered a moderate.  
      

- posted by Kerry M. Kerstetter, MBA~CPA~ATP~ATA @ 5/21/2003 12:16:00 PM Send this post: