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...rich folk, who pay the most taxes, reap the most rewards. Families that earn more than $200,000 a year, who make up 2 percent of Americans, would save between 14 to 16 percent of their current tax bite. But their share of the national tax pie, currently at 27.4 percent, remains the same. (Bush's proposal to eliminate the estate tax is where they make most of their money. Which is why Republicans call it the "death tax" and explain it in philosophical terms...
...enough drinking--not nearly enough! Alcohol is expensive, parties are lame and everyone has a paper due the next day and a resume to pad. No one has the time to enjoy the simpler pleasures in life: the rich, loamy taste of a Guinness pint, the bubbly bite of a gin and tonic, the subtle musk of a fine merlot. Put bluntly, no one has time to just chill out and have a drink...
...idea credible--and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended--Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers--but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush's plan to $1.8 trillion; House majority leader Dick Armey would inflate the cuts to $2.6 trillion. Corporate lobbyists "are baying at the door" of the Ways and Means Committee...
...biggest threat to the tribes so far is the very animal that the war-painted Mike is so intent on spearing, a feral pig. Another introduced animal, these fierce pigs have been known to attack without provocation and can severely gore and bite humans...
...estates of fewer than 48,000 Americans a year - 2 percent of annual deaths - pay the tax now. And it remains a powerful incentive for the aging rich to give some of their millions to charity before the government gets its bite. Opponents of the plan - including the petitioners, who should know - also say that the cost of a repeal will be far greater than the $236 billion price tag Bush puts...