To:-- Senator Barbara Boxer:
1. I asked you a question about medical expense deductions through one of your telephone assistants.
2. Several days later via email I got a computer generated burble about The Bailout.
3. I replied to that email with the text below, repeating my question.
4. I got a computer generated reply to that email (which your office sent) stating that I could not reply to that email but had to use this form.
ONCE AGAIN HERE IS THE GODDAM QUESTION>>>>>>>>>>>
-> Why haven't you introduced tax-legislation so as to make *all* medical expenses tax deductible from AGI without having to reach a 7% threshold and regardless of whether one itemizes other deductions
1. The current medical expense deduction is a fraud. By the time medical expenses reach 7% of AGI the taxpayer is broke anyways, on the verge of "bankruptcy" so that the IRS is only giving up on what it couldn't grasp and claw for anyway.
2. Given the fact that you have been unable to control medical costs, to provide universal health care (or even coverage) or EVEN to allow us ordinary worthless folk to participate in the same government sponsored pool you and your millionaire cronies in the Senate enjoy, you should at least allow for full deduction of our self-paid health care costs.
3. This deduction should not be tied to Sch A itemization and should be over and above the standard deduction because people who need it most (those who don't "own" mortgage interest and those who have paid off their mortgage and are on fixed incomes) usually dont itemize anyway.
This measure (among others) would be a concrete --rather than junk PR -- step toward building some true equity and progressivity into a tax structure that is a vicious and cruel game of "benefit-the-bank".
AS FOR THE BANK BAILOUT -- I remain opposed to it for the reasons called into your office before both votes. The bullshit "amendments" "pork rinds" and other bells and whistles you guys added are as irrelevant as they are insulting to our intelligence. I am not going to repeat except to say that the ONLY two people in the Senate who showed any integrity and intelligence in this matter were FEINGOLD and SANDERS. I refer you to SANDERS web page where you can read what he said about the bill and about what needs to be done. You could learn from him. I suggest you go sit at his feet for a while.
Now... answer my question about tax deductibility of medical expenses. Are you going to do some real work for non-corporate persons or are you going to try to get by with PR BS?
<<<<<<<< END OF QUESTION
Lets see what new avoidance tricks you can pull, now
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