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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:44:24 -0400, "Jeff Rigby"
wrote:

Anyway, the write-off doesn't happen with vacant land until you sell it. In
the mean time, as an investment it's killing you to pay the $2,200 in taxes
on a 75X90 foot vacant lot every year.

IIRC, on the deductions portion of the 1040, there is a line for
"Property Taxes Paid", or some such wording. Isn't this the *total*
of all property taxes? I'll keep an eye on this thread and post again
in a week or so -- hee hee, I need to do my 2003 return soon! At
least I put in an extension last filing season and made a prepayment,
so the real terrorists (IRS) won't slap me so hard this time;-)

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Q

"P. Fritz" wrote in message ...

SNIP

Furthermore, I am not necessarily in favor of letting everyone vote.....I
think that you need to have a vested interest.......i.e. only property
owners should vote on whether to increase property taxes.

So, does this mean it's a woman's choice and not that of the extreme right?

From: Harry Krause

Oh...and 9-11 took place on Bush's watch.

And the first World Trade Center bombing took place on Clinton's. So, he blew
it too I guess.

And the first World Trade Center bombing took place on Clinton's. So, he blew
it too I guess.

Yup. Let's not reelect Clinton, either.

From: Harry Krause

How many Americans died in WTC attack I?

Does it really matter how many died. 1 or 100. Under your guidelines all that
happens good or bad is the fault of the sitting President. You cannot have it
both ways. If the 9-11 attack was Bush's fault then the 93 attack was Clinton's
using your criteria. So then Pearl Harbor was Roosevelts and so on.

And the first World Trade Center bombing took place on Clinton's. So,
he
blew it too I guess.

Yup. Let's not reelect Clinton, either.

Again, you seem to miss the point. You want to have it both ways.
Anything that
happens with Bush in the chair is his fault but anything that happened
under
the previous administration is not their fault.

Go figure.

Bush refuses to take responsibility for anything. Or even admit he's
made mistakes.

I believe that most of the decisions that a President makes are value based,
if you will, moral and character based decisions. If you have a President
with a good grasp of history and a strong moral base then his decisions
can't be wrong. The implementation can be flawed in many ways and that's
usually the responsibility of people that the President appoints. And I
believe he mentioned that there were several mistakes he made there but he
didn't want to embarrass them by mentioning their names.

I haven't mentioned intelligence failures as that SHOULD be obvious to even
a moron that flawed intelligence can cause wrong decisions. Again, that's
not the fault of the President unless he made the decision to cripple or
under fund intelligence.

Political corruption can rear it's head as many jobs (appointments) are
political payoffs for services during elections. My IMPRESSION is that this
is more of a problem with the Democrat party than with the Republican.
There are cases of Republican appointments were their ideology can get in
the way. A perfect example for the Democrats is Janet Reno (Waco) where
anti-gun efforts went to an extreme.

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:15:15 -0400, Jeff Rigby wrote:

I haven't mentioned intelligence failures as that SHOULD be obvious to
even
a moron that flawed intelligence can cause wrong decisions. Again, that's
not the fault of the President unless he made the decision to cripple or
under fund intelligence.

Our if they decided to use their own intelligence.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact