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Madam ZZ

May 11, 2003, 10:58 AM

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Sharing angst....

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I really can't get to my FM-3 and Mexico fast enough, but the road ahead is rough. My mother, 88-years-old and with end stage heart disease is such a sweetie and legally blind. I can get help for her when I'm gone, but she has been so frail I don't want to go but I should briefly to spring my corporation including open the bank account and rent a store front for job applications. I have bilingual local help lined up for taking the applications 2-3 hours a day. There's a $189 7-day air-only out of Cleveland here on May 24 and I have a $50 coupon for having bought trip cancellation - which I had to use for the Iraq war for because Mom is a WW2 bombing campaigns survivor. Well, we talked over the surf and turf lunch I made her place and I'm not going and the air fares will be that low again several times this summer. It's FunJet after all. And I should stay more than 7-days. Mom says 7 days makes no sense. I feel like Iike I got alot my chest, there! Thanks. I'll call my lawyer and see what we can do with what he's got! On another note, anyone see anything on the Bush tax plan planning not to tax Americans living abroad?

Bill_N

May 11, 2003, 3:51 PM

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I really don't follow most of what you are saying but about your last sentence, I heard on one of the "Talking Heads" Sunday programs that the Republicans put in a bunch of provisions into their supposed "Tax Cut" which will they call "Revenue Enhancements"... Another word for "Taxes". One of these that was specifically mentioned was "raising taxes on Americans living abroad". That's all I know about it. But apparently in the House of Representatives "so called tax cut bill" there was a lot of "shell game". Cutting taxes on one segment of the population (mostly rich people) while raising taxes on another segment (apparently people who are too far away from the US to make their voices heard very effectively). So don't be surprised if ex-pats are paying higher taxes on earned income to help fund this "tax cut".

Sounded pretty fishy to me.

Bill

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