You think it was an unplanned donation?


I smell a rat from the git-go

Did Mrs Cheney's book really clear 7 million bucks? That'd
make it pretty popular, and she'd be a higher earning author
than most of the ones on the best seller list. Where did
this money really come from?

In any event, since they donated it to charity (can't help
but wonder which charities are the lucky recipient) it's
somewhat of a moot point.

Which brings me to my next question... how the heck do you
pay 2.46 million in quarterly estimated taxes (which are a
friggin' pox) on an income of 1.95 million? That don't add
up Jack!


RCE wrote:
...At a lesser scale, many of us have to make last
minute contributions to retirement plans, etc. to even out the tax hit at
the end of the year.

Yes and that can be rather hectic trying to juggle numbers.
But it's nice to be in a position to support good works that
one believes in.


... In any event, he paid his share, crooked as you may
think he is.


I agree that it appears Vice President Cheney has paid his
share of taxes. But it's not that we *think* he's crooked,
it's that he's a crook, period.

Who hands out guaranteed-profit contracts against the
recommendations of department heads, comptrollers,
engineers, etc etc? Who has been censured for conflict of
interest by the Congress, a body of men who seemingly have
unerring astigmatism when it comes to spotting fiscal
doo-doo? Who fired all the OMB auditors on the Halliburton
case? Who said "I have never used my gov't connections for
profit?" Who, when told he had to release his Fed tax
statements, said "Damned if I will" only to realize that it
was a legal requirement of filing for election to Vice
President?

Dick Cheney isn't crooked, he's a fiscal law unto himself
and always has been. He seems to genuinely believe that the
U.S. taxpayers exist to provide him & his cronies with
wealth on a scale that King Midas and Louis 14th would envy.

DSK