Government - July 2006

DO YOU ALL AGREE? =)

2006-07-18 08:27:19 · 10 answers · asked by Eve 2

2006-07-18 08:05:11 · 4 answers · asked by jim.weatherford@sbcglobal.net 1

What do u think about George Bush as a president? r u pro, con, or u dont really care?

2006-07-18 07:48:56 · 25 answers · asked by rjekqlw 5

Will Blair's legacy be a good one or seen as a dismal failure

2006-07-18 07:37:51 · 14 answers · asked by Jez P 1

2006-07-18 07:37:11 · 7 answers · asked by johnjohn20 1

2006-07-18 07:34:31 · 13 answers · asked by johnjohn20 1

2006-07-18 07:31:54 · 15 answers · asked by johnjohn20 1

While I am very opinionated I am NOT looking to start a fight. I sincerely just focus on the bad and have a negative perspective about our current state of politics. I honestly only look at what shortcomings the whitehouse had produced. Really truly what are some honest to goodness GOOD things that have been accomplished by Geroge W Bush thus far? Thank You

2006-07-18 07:29:33 · 12 answers · asked by j h 2

robber brownn can reduce tax by 8p a letre and still make millions a day its not the companys it is brown and his greedy crooks

2006-07-18 07:27:20 · 12 answers · asked by anthony f 1

2006-07-18 07:24:28 · 8 answers · asked by colombiahotstuff 2

Hospital consultants and other medical staff.

2006-07-18 07:21:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-18 07:20:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-18 07:11:15 · 18 answers · asked by david c 4

Why should people who have not paid contributions into a social security system be eligibel for benefits? Why should housing benefit be paid to those who simply go on and on having children, demanding to be housed with no intention of ever working? I dont think that the vast majority of people in the UK realise that there are no equivalent benefits paid in the rest of Europe, or maybe they do and thats why there is such an issue with immigration.
The benefits system was originally designed to help those who could not help themselves, there is jobs for all out there, people just have to get off their arses and apply for them. While the state continues to give the handouts, the people will fall deeper into the rut of not bothering, knowing the pieces will be picked up with a nice fat Giro cheque.
Its simple, if you put money into a bank, you can take it out, with a little interest, same principle applies, if you pay into the system, then if the need arise, you get help

2006-07-18 06:58:11 · 7 answers · asked by SunnyDays 5

Here we have potentially World War Three in the Mideast, No. Korea with nukes, a trillion dollar debt to Communist China, the Army bogged down in Iraq, and what is Congress doing today? Debating the anti-gay Marriage Amendment, which already died in the Senate. Do you feel betrayed and insulted by Congress?

2006-07-18 06:54:20 · 10 answers · asked by jxt299 7

..i kinow who i think..how about you?

2006-07-18 06:36:20 · 15 answers · asked by hello 2

2006-07-18 05:57:44 · 11 answers · asked by DONAVON N 1

why don't they help us fight terriorism.

2006-07-18 05:56:21 · 12 answers · asked by Elizabeth 6

2006-07-18 05:56:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been registered in the national donot call registry but I still get calls evenings and days everyday.

2006-07-18 05:53:59 · 16 answers · asked by Lina M 1

Is there a US president with a felony on his record?

2006-07-18 05:41:13 · 9 answers · asked by ? 1

Yes, he made a mistake 40 years ago, but he keeps getting reelected, so he must be doing something right.

Will he ever be redeemed in the eyes of the public? Or will the poor guy always be the butt of jokes and object of ridicule?

2006-07-18 05:14:42 · 15 answers · asked by Professor Chaos386 4

2006-07-18 05:07:53 · 3 answers · asked by keishtin0106 1

And the fault is not just in Republicans. Many Democrats are just as bad. They put through bills they know are never going to pass-flag burning and gay marriage and such, and don't care how many people are out there homeless and without any health care whatsoever. They think you can make ends meet with a lousy $5.15 an hour while they get raise after raise ( I think I read it was 9 raises for Congress since the national minimum wage had changed at all!)
Now last night I read where they are selling our bridges and toll roads!

2006-07-18 05:04:53 · 11 answers · asked by Cindy P 4

2006-07-18 04:54:56 · 20 answers · asked by Kalidas 2

i have a half brother named J.D. Stanfield. last know address was somewhere in Oklahoma.

2006-07-18 04:52:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-18 04:36:04 · 14 answers · asked by tough as hell 3

2006-07-18 04:27:52 · 7 answers · asked by tough as hell 3

Since I don't have a safe, secure location...Homeland security is of most concern and being a cabinet post with the dept. made up of loyal party members under the direction of the president only adds to my apprehension

2006-07-18 04:15:08 · 3 answers · asked by longroad 5

Distribution of Tax-Cut Benefits

The benefits that the tax cuts provide to different groups vary dramatically. New data from the Tax Policy Center show the effects in 2004 of the tax cuts that have already been enacted, including the corporate and estate tax cuts, as well as the individual income tax cuts. The Tax Policy Center data show that the combined effect of the tax cuts in 2004 is as follows:

The one-fifth of households in the middle of the income spectrum will receive an average tax cut of $647.
The top one percent of households will receive tax cuts averaging almost $35,000 — or 54 times as much as that received on average by those in the middle of the income spectrum.
Households with incomes above $1 million will receive tax cuts averaging about $123,600. The tax cuts for millionaires will cause their after-tax income to jump by 6.4 percent, nearly three times the percentage increase received by the middle fifth.
The overall shares of the tax cuts that are going to different households also are illuminating. The Tax Policy Center data show that:

In 2004, the middle 20 percent of households will receive 8.9 percent of the tax cuts.
By contrast, millionaires — totaling just 0.2 percent of U.S. households — will receive 15.3 percent of the tax cuts.[3] In other words, the small handful of millionaires will receive total tax cuts far larger than those received by the entire middle 20 percent of households.
The tax cuts will confer more than $30 billion on the nation’s 257,000 millionaires in 2004 alone.
Over the ten-year period, the richest Americans—the best-off one percent—are slated to receive tax cuts totaling almost half a trillion dollars. The $477 billion in tax breaks the Bush administration has targeted to this elite group will average $342,000 each over the decade.
By 2010, when (and if) the Bush tax reductions are fully in place, an astonishing 52 percent of the total tax cuts will go to the richest one percent—whose average 2010 income will be $1.5 million. Their tax-cut windfall in that year alone will average $85,000 each. Put another way, of the estimated $234 billion in tax cuts scheduled for the year 2010, $121 billion will go just 1.4 million taxpayers.
Although the rich have already received a hefty down payment on their Bush tax cuts—averaging just under $12,000 each this year—80 percent of their windfall is scheduled to come from tax changes that won’t take effect until after this year, mostly from items that phase in after 2005.

In contrast, the vast majority of taxpayers have already received most of their tax cuts from the 2001 legislation.

For the four out of five families and individuals making less than $73,000 this year, three-quarters of the tax cuts—averaging about $350 this year—are already in place.
Tax cuts for the 19 percent of taxpayers making between $73,000 and $356,000 this year will grow a little over the next four years as the cuts in the upper tax rates continue to kick in, but then will dwindle thereafter. By 2010, the tax cuts for this group will be no bigger as a share of income than they are

2006-07-18 03:54:27 · 13 answers · asked by tough as hell 3