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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:39 AM
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Great tax day protest: "Are YOUR taxes buying what you don't want?"


Marcy Luek, center, of Gibsonia and Bette McDevitt of the North Side, sing on tax day outside the Squirrel Hill Post Office with other members of the Raging Grannies as they and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom hand out information on where tax dollars are going.


http://www.post-gazette.com/journal/photos_display.asp?ID=21342
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:45 AM
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1. Uncle Sam got only
Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 06:45 AM by hobbit709
$8 from us in 2006 for george's dirty ;ittle war. The year before he got $0. I guess our economic situation improved enough to pay eight whole dollars in income tax.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:48 AM
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2. Yeah, but Bush is also robbing the Social Security trust fund
to pay for Iraq. Even if you paid little or no income taxes, if you are a wage earner, you pay Social Security taxes.

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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-18-07 06:54 AM
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3. At this point
I am costing the government more than I am paying. But unlike Halliburton, it's on a very small scale.
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