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- From: fafuria@der.Princeton.EDU (Frederick Arthur Furia)
- Subject: Re: national debt threatens America
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.072011.29917@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <LHy3TB1w164w@cellar.org> <1992Nov12.124036.3880@sadtler.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:20:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.124036.3880@sadtler.com> rick@sadtler.com (Rick Morris) writes:
- >techie@cellar.org (William A Bacon) at it again!:
- >>
- >> The Society President noted that, since there are about 250 million
- >>Americans, "Simple arithmetic shows that the bill for interest alone this
- >>year - a burden we all pay through various forms of taxation - comes to
- >>$1,300 for every man, woman, and child in this nation. We are mortgaging our
- >>future and that of our children and grandchildren."
- >
- >Hey! I pay 10x that amount annually to the FED. I guess the deficit is not
- >that bad after all!
-
- Okay. Just spend 250 million times that this year and we'll be done
- with this silly little debt problem in no time!
-
- Something else interesting about taxes... Did anyone else hear Perot
- say in a debate that he has spent over a billion dollars in taxes in his
- lifetime? I found that simply amazing!
-
- Fred
-