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• Lawyer testifies heiress meant payments as gifts, not contributions, to John Edwards

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Technically you are correct...in that the recipient doesn't pay the taxes. In this case, it is Young(s) that received the gift. I would have been in the best interest that Bunny gave it directly to Edwards who in turn could gift it to Hunter or directly from Bunny to Hunter.

• Lawyer testifies heiress meant payments as gifts, not contributions, to John Edwards

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Look beyond just the testimony in the trial. The public can do so because we aren't part of the jury. We get to see a bigger picture.

• Lawyer testifies heiress meant payments as gifts, not contributions, to John Edwards

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • To clarify the above post about the receiver of a gift...

• Lawyer testifies heiress meant payments as gifts, not contributions, to John Edwards

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Receiver also has to report over the $13,000. If not then it is the receiver who is looked into...

• Lawyer testifies heiress meant payments as gifts, not contributions, to John Edwards

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • However, it did then turn around and get "gifted" again to Hunter and Johnny. That's how the rules are written. That's why social security payments are taxed on money that has already been taxed. One gets taxed on money they receive -- each and every person that receives it.

• Lawyer testifies heiress meant payments as gifts, not contributions, to John Edwards

  Mon May 7, 2012
  • Agree 110%. If was a gift and it needs taxed. Tax fraud on received gift = 1, Contribution = 0! Edwards is in double trouble of his own making.

• Witness: Bunny Mellon thought paying for John Edwards' mistress was 'foolish' but fun

  Fri May 4, 2012
  • Chris150 -- He is not poor and he doesn't need anyone standing up for him. He needs to take responsibility for dropping his drawers while married.

• Missiles on my apartment? London resident balks at Olympics security measures

  Sun Apr 29, 2012
  • Oh the crying shame that big bad government is putting up missiles when most likely the owner of the apartments will get paid in the process.

• Unscreened baby leads to terminal evacuation, delays at Newark airport

  Sat Apr 28, 2012
  • @Watermoon, Now that you've competely read some of the comments and replies that were posted prior to my comment, would you kindly like to recant your reply to mine?

• Unscreened baby leads to terminal evacuation, delays at Newark airport

  Sat Apr 28, 2012
  • Here is a very different viewpoint. How many people complaining about the Port Authority decision actually lost not just 1 or 2 or 3 or but many more family, friends, neighbors and colleagues during the 9/11 attacks? The Port Authority as a whole did.