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Originally Posted by djplong
Cologal: You asked why people always mention the Kennedys, I was responding to that. I thought that providing an example of Kennedy tax hypocrisy would demonstrate the point. In other words, it's ok for Ted Kennedy to hike your taxes, but he does his damndest to avoid them (including selling the estate for $1 in 2008!).
When he is one of 'the liberal leaders', he should be held up to a standard that doesn't fail the "do as I say, not as I do" test.
It's the same thing that brings down other politicians, evangelists - anyone who preaches what other people should do.
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No actually I didn't ask why people always mention the Kennedys. In another string I called Sen. McCarthy a mean drunk and the retort was Ted Kennedy was a drunk. I posted a link about the owners of the LA Dodgers legally paying absolutely zero taxes although they took in millions. The retort, from the same person was, there are tax cheats on both sides the Kennedy's do it. So I said this person seemed to be fixated on the Kennedy's.
My point in this thread is more tax options are available to the rich than to the middle class...I would be in favor of a flat tax for both people and business. Quite often business comes in gets tax breaks from local and state government based on promises but somehow things just don't work out. I have sure seen it in Colorado Springs a city completely under conservative control, the TABOR law and so totally out of money.