Question about the timber thing....

[i like pizza]

what was the significance of the $84?

[Mojambo]

1. It qualified Bush as a small business owner

under the Republicans ridiculous definition.

It basically blows their whole argument that Kerry's tax plan would raise taxes on legitimate small business owners.

[i like pizza]

2. wait...

so, how would bush benefit from investing 84 dollars in the company? tax breaks?

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Here's the point

Bush claims that rolling back the taxes would effect 900K small business. Kerry said Bush uses a very broad (rediculous) definition of small business. To illustrate, he pointed out that Bush's small investment in the timber company that gave him a payment of $84 from it's profits qualifes Bush as a small business owner under his own definition.

[Jose Diablo]

4. Kick

[radfringe]

5. some "small" businesses income

are reported on personal income tax returns -- usually these people are self-employed and/or do contract work and their taxable income from their business is waaay less than $200,000 per year and wouldn't be effected by Kerry's tax plan

bush*'s "fuzzy analysis" includes these people -- bottom line is it's just another distortion and manipulation of numbers to scare people