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On 18 Oct 2004 05:03:49 -0700, (basskisser) wrote:

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John Gaquin wrote:
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Talk about misinformation. How much did each of them earn?

Not misinformation.

From various reports found on Google......

Mr. Bush reported $822,126 in adjusted gross income for last year, on
which
he paid $227,490 in federal income taxes....

About 25%, give or take.

Sen. Kerry reported $395,000 in taxable income and paid $90,575 in
federal
income taxes....

About 25%, give or take.

Mrs. Bush is unemployed.
Ms. Heinz Kerry on Friday released a small part of her 2003 income tax
return, unlike her husband, Senator John Kerry, and President Bush and
his
wife, Laura, who have made their full tax returns available for public
inspection. The Kerrys file separate tax returns, a common arrangement
when
one spouse is wealthy.

The two-page document, posted at johnkerry.com, showed total income of
$5,073,554 last year.... Ms. Heinz Kerry paid a federal tax of
$628,401....,.

"Give or take"? My, my but your math skills are lacking

My, but YOUR math skills are lacking. If you really want to act that
way, perhaps you shouldn't ignore the digits past the decimal point.

Bush paid 28% not 25%

Actually, 27.670941...%

Kerry paid 23% not 25%

Actually, 22.930380...%

For the mathematically challenged, the three dots following the number
denote, and always has denoted, that the digits continue.

Actually, to the hundredth is correct. Measuring beyond that is a
useless exercise in terms of money.

So to be mathematically correct, Bush is 27.67% and Kerry is 22.93%.

Just a point of order.

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653