Kerry lied to get purple heart?
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| Tue, 08-10-2004 - 5:33pm |
The records should be able to shed some light on this if Kerry chooses to open them to the public.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28856.htm
'Larry Thurlow, the skipper of a boat trailing Kerry's, says in the book that he saw Kerry suffer a buttocks wound earlier that day in 1969 when he was hit by fragments from his own grenade while trying to destroy a Viet Cong rice cache.
"He dishonestly transferred the time and cause of the injury to coincide with the action later in the day and claimed that the cause of the injury was the mine exploding during the action," the book claims.
In Kerry's version of the incident, he says a mine struck his swift boat - wounding him in the buttocks and arm.
Kerry maintains he braved enemy fire from both shores to race to the bow of the boat and pluck Rassman, who had fallen overboard, out of the water.
But, the book says, "Many participants in the incident state that neither weapons fire nor a mine explosion occurred near Kerry during the incident.
"Unless one believes in the amazing coincidence that Kerry got two wounds in the same place on the same day, he lied to get the Purple Heart," the authors say.
Rassman is backing Kerry's presidential candidacy and he supports Kerry's version of the rescue.
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< Mininum wage workers are not paying any income tax, so they are not going to get any tax breaks. The top few percent of income earners pay the bulk of taxes, so they are.>
The IRS tax calculator at http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96196,00.html
produces the following result...
Based on the information you previously entered, your anticipated income tax for 2004 is $276. If you do not change your current withholding arrangement, you will have $0 withheld for 2004, leaving $276 due when you file your return. You should adjust your withholding on a new Form W-4 as follows:
For the only job you entered (which has a projected salary of $10,712): 0 allowances.
Check the “Single” box on your Form W-4.
Assuming these recommended allowance(s) are in effect for the rest of 2004, your expected refund should be about $25. Following this recommendation will ensure that the amount withheld from your wages will cover all of your projected tax liability while minimizing your refund.
Edited 8/17/2004 6:36 pm ET ET by truemobile
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< Based on the information you previously entered, your anticipated income tax for 2004 is $276. >
Please read the ENTIRE message, there is a $25 refund due the person. I didn't check any fields in the initial form, and there was a notice (which I presented to you in the my initial reply) indicating that $25 would be refunded if single was checked in the W4 see "Assuming these recommended allowance(s) are in effect for the rest of 2004, your expected refund should be about $25."
Thus the tax due is -$25 according to the IRS, not $176 as you erroneously concluded or $276 as you again erroneously concluded I concluded.
Since his taxes are -$25, how much do you think Kerry should cut?
Your previous post included this;
"Based on the information you previously entered, your anticipated income tax for 2004 is $276. If you do not change your current withholding arrangement, you will have $0 withheld for 2004, leaving $276 due when you file your return. You should adjust your withholding on a new Form W-4 as follows:"
That means a tax of $276.00, per your own post.
If the theoretical person adjusts their witholding, they will get a partial refund of $25.00.
I dunno, how much do you think their taxes should be cut? $276.00? Zero? But lets not perpetuate an incorrect idea that minimum wage earners pay no taxes. They do. however small.
< Thus the tax due is -$25 according to the IRS, not $176 as you erroneously concluded or $276 as you again erroneously concluded I concluded.
Since his taxes are -$25, how much do you think Kerry should cut? >
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