it'll make you smile:
"I have been thinking of writing a letter to the Washington Post on this subject -- Bush's tax cuts aren't even for the high income earners; they're for those who are ALREADY mega-rich. Income taxes for people like ourselves who make a ton of money (compared to the rest of the US, we do) are still pretty high. It's the people sitting on a mountainous portfolio of dividend paying stocks and stocks with capital gains who really got the tax cut. Factor in the repeal of the estate tax and we ensure that another generation of the mega-rich gets to keep their money.
So as a young people working hard to build the mountainous portfolio, we are paying 40 cents on the dollar in taxes compared to the ALREADY rich person's 15%. I look forward and I expect that the reckless fiscal policy of the Bush administration will continue to tax us long after Bush has been relegated to the ash-heap of history. We'll be paying higher taxes and higher interest rates (becaues the federal treasury will be borrowing so much) as far as the eye can see. It's enough to make a high-incomce earner vote for Kerry. Oh, where have you gone Robert Rubin? A desperate nation longs for you."
Thoughts? Is he getting his numbers right?
(p.s. Just to give you the warm fuzzies: this is a conservative in battleground Virginia, who voted for Bush in 2000, and is voting for Kerry in 2004.)