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Re: You're not in the top 1%, right?

Author:
angie

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Date Posted: 21:01:03 06/05/01 Tue
In reply to: GC 's message, "Re: You're not in the top 1%, right?" on 14:58:37 06/05/01 Tue

My husband refuses to be put on the overtime list at the post office for that very reason. . .we end up maybe making enough to by a pizza --IF WE'RE LUCKY!!!
Let's hope w/ the shake up in the Senate today everything remains intact!

>Getting money back is only part of it. The Tax scale
>has been changed. This means that the top 1% gets a
>well deserved break like anyone else. Instead of say
>38% taxes to pay it goes down to 30% (hypothetically)I
>don't have actual figures. Higher up incomes pays
>even more than the 38%.
>
>A little research could get the actual figures. I
>used to make border line income. this meant that any
>time I did overtime, I could earn only $200 take home
>pay reguardless of how many hrs I worked, because of
>making enough to hit above 15% bracket due to the
>overtime.

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Re: You're not in the top 1%, right?	GC	02:40:55 06/07/01 Thu