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" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
" 
" >From wikipedia[0] (reach for your grain of salt, but this shouldn't be
" too controversial):
" 
" "The AMT was introduced by the Tax Reform Act of 1969[1] and became
" operative in 1970. It was intended to target 155 high-income
" households that had been eligible for so many tax benefits that they
" owed little or no income tax under the tax code of the time.[2]"
" 
" And the links lead to:
" 
" [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_Minimum_Tax
" 
" [1] Pub. L. No. 91-172, 83 Stat. 487 (Dec. 30, 1969).
" 
" [2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36988-2004Mar6.html
" 
" Here's a link to a Congressional Budget Office document on the subject:
" 
" http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/53xx/doc5386/04-15-AMT.pdf
" 
" Which has as it's conclusion:
" 
" "Conclusions
" 
" Over the coming decade, a growing number of taxpayers
" will become liable for the AMT. In 2010, if nothing is
" changed, one in five taxpayers will have AMT liability
" and nearly every married taxpayer with income between
" $100,000 and $500,000 will owe the alternative tax.
" Rather than affecting only high-income taxpayers who
" would otherwise pay no tax, the AMT has extended its
" reach to many upper-middle-income households. As an
" increasing number of taxpayers incur the AMT, pressures
" to reduce or eliminate the tax are likely to grow."
" 
" (the above quote is from the linked document, from 2004)

...so of course the correct move would be to raise the amt threshold
until it again targeted only the extremely wealthy - but also of
course, the wealthy and their political puppets will be careful to
steer the debate well away from any suggestion of that sort...
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