09-09-2003, 09:46 PM
they did both.
And putting aside who it benefits for a second, how can anyone be fundamentally opposed to cutting taxes on dividends (which have already been taxed as profits from a company), capital gains (when they cap the tax benefit you can get from capital losses and the money you invested was already taxed by the government) or inheritence (this is the biggest bullshit of all. I make my money, there is no transaction at all. I just want to transfer my assets after I'm dead to my loved ones, and the government takes half of it???)
And putting aside who it benefits for a second, how can anyone be fundamentally opposed to cutting taxes on dividends (which have already been taxed as profits from a company), capital gains (when they cap the tax benefit you can get from capital losses and the money you invested was already taxed by the government) or inheritence (this is the biggest bullshit of all. I make my money, there is no transaction at all. I just want to transfer my assets after I'm dead to my loved ones, and the government takes half of it???)