Cainehill, your remark about tax cuts for the rich is BS. I am not rich, and I got a check in the mail. If you didn't get yours, you didn't check your mail. Everyone who paid taxes got a return, unless you owed the gov't money. I find it funny that you think it's wrong for the "rich" to get a tax cut since they're the ones paying most of the taxes. Here you go, the IRS's report:
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-soi/01in01ts.xls
The top 50% of wage earners in the U.S. paid 96% of all taxes, and we all got money back. The top 5% of all wage earners pay something like 50% of all taxes. Incidentally, the gov't defines "rich" as making 90k/year. I'm pretty middle class and I was pretty damn happy to get some money back. Everyone got a tax cut, the "rich" just got a lot more back because they paid a lot more. I don't know why you don't like our economic system, it's not perfect and could definately be improved, but it's still the best in the world. You seem to think it's unfair somewhere but I'm telling you that 99% of peoples economic problems are their own doing. I still see people flocking to the U.S in droves, yet I don't see U.S. citizens flocking to other countries. Something good must be happening around this horrible country of ours.
[ July 27, 2004, 15:30: Message edited by: vigabrand ]