So let me help you to paste a link. Go to the page where you found the above information. Once at the PDF file site.

1) Highlight the address in the address bar (drag curser over address till it turns blue).

2) While holding down the ctrl key on your key board press the letter "C". This will copy the address to your computer.

3) Then come back here and you can paste the link below in the "optional Link URL" box. You can do this by

1) clicking in the box to put the blinking curser in it as if going to type something.

2) Then while holding down the ctrl key on your key board press the letter "V".

This will paste the address to the pdf file and put a link in your post. No need to waste bandwidth. Just a link. I then will be able to find what you are looking at.

Thanks

1978 Reforms

"The Alternative Minimum Tax that Americans are now grappling with was introduced in its present format as a result of tax reform in 1978. While the Congress rejected many of President Jimmy Carter's proposals, Congress did choose to approve tax cuts geared toward upper-income groups; these included cuts in capital gains and corporate taxes. The final legislation, the Revenue Act of 1978, featured $18.7 billion in tax cuts. The bill formally transformed the minimum tax devised in 1969 into the "Alternative Minimum Tax" and increased the percentage in taxes that individuals would be required to pay. Media reports indicated that the reductions in capital gains taxes would be offset by increases in the AMT. "

• http://hnn.us/articles/11819.html

I think it will be practically impossible to prove your point. Because in order to prove your point you will have to prove this things.

1) How much the rich report (again I think the top 30% of income earners is a fair place to start.) This figure is easy to find.

2) How much the rich have sheltered. Don't know how you could prove this if it isn't reported anywhere. Someone estimates are useless here and only an opinion.

3) If the rich are sheltering money what kind of shelters are they? Do they have to pay taxes on the money eventually? In other words are they just tax differed shelters or something else. Again almost impossible to show because it isn't reported anywhere.

4) If you want to show that Bush's administration has compounded this problem you then would have to show not only that the Republicans pushed the bills through enabling these shelters and that Bush signed them into law. But also all of the above.

Pretty tall order. I prefer to believe the tax analyzers from the US Treasury dept.