http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/101504_thk_tax_filing.pdf
Theresa Heinz has only made 2 pages of a 1 billion dollar tax statement available to the public. That is beautiful.
Overall income of $5.07 million. That is just delicious how she was able to only declare $5.07 MM in income. But this isn't the best part.
$2.78 MM of the 5.07 was untaxed.
Of that $628,401 was taxed. This is not just beautiful, not just delicious, but for a woman of such magnificent wealth to achieve a 12.4% tax rate takes Houdini like magic to pull off.
From:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/s...2004_0310.html
Kerry pledged, “I am going to ask America’s wealthiest people – those making over $200,000 a year – to pay the same fair share they paid under Bill Clinton.” That fair share amounts to a tax rate of almost 41 percent – or 350 percent the rate his wife felt compelled to pay.
Edwards: “[A] millionaire sitting by their swimming pool, collecting their statements to see how much money they're making, make their money from dividends, pays a lower tax rate than the men and women who are receiving paychecks for serving on the ground in Iraq.” So is Edwards talking about Theresa?
Theresa Heinz is the first spouse of a presidential or vice-presidential candidate not to release her full tax returns. The activities of the H. John Heinz III Foundation and the Teresa & H. John Heinz III Foundation, which she heads, remain concealed – including how they are funded and the groups they endow. Teresa Heinz Kerry has steered a great deal of her politically motivated “philanthropy” to “campaign finance reform” organizations – indeed, she sits on the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution.
There you have it. While some of you are busy acting as if Democrats are sooo much different and soooo much better, maybe it's time to realize how corruption is a buffet and politicians the people who dine well on it.
-Rudey
--Kerry wants to close tax loopholes? Over his wife's dead body.
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