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- From: robs@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robert Sipe)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
- Message-ID: <BzoI85.15o@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:57:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bcstec.BzoI85.15o
- References: <1533@nazgul.UUCP>
- Distribution: pnw
- Organization: Boeing
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- In article <1533@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
- >According to Prof. Walter Williams on the National Business Report, the
- >aggregate income of all Americans earning over $200,000 per year is
- >$209 billion. Therefore, if you simply confiscated *all* the income of
- >the rich, we would not eliminate the deficit, which some projections
- >estimate at $400 billion next year.
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- >And if you did confiscate all their income, what would you do about the
- >next tax year? People don't work for nothing.
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- >Clearly, although "tax the rich" makes great campaign rhetoric, to finance
- >the government spending programs the tax increases will have to dig deep
- >into the middle class.
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- Why is it that this message did not become clear before the election.
- Perhaps it did but no one heard it. Irrespective, we will be getting
- this deficit under control one way or the other according to Pres. Clinton.
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- Statement made by Oliver North when asked to comment on Clinton's draft
- record. "I would rather vote for Jane Fonda than Gov. Clinton! At least
- she has been to North Vietnam."
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