"DSK" wrote in message
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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


I don't know for a fact that any of the allegations about Halliburton and
Cheney are accurate or not and I don't think anybody knows for sure except
maybe Cheney.

But (correct me here if I have a memory failure) I seem to remember that
the subject stock options (that were part of his employment deal with
Halliburton) becoming an issue during the 2000 election. Cheney voluntarily
decided and announced that the proceeds of those options, when exercised,
would be donated to charity.

So, here we are six years later, he donates the proceeds of almost 7 million
to charity and gains a 2 million return.
Looks like he lost 5 mil on keeping his word. And now, some start
questioning the "appearance" of the transaction or start "smelling a rat".
Darth Vader or not, nobody in his position can win in this world of cynics.

RCE