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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.225104.3841@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
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- Distribution: pnw
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:51:04 GMT
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- mayo@pa.dec.com (Bob Mayo) writes:
-
- >Here's what I was trying to say in my statement.
- >Our retirement depends upon having a good economy when we
- >retire. We should invest in a manner that will give us a surplus of food,
- >a surplus of housing, cheap health care, factories that crank out
- >products at little cost, etc, etc.. This is the invest in private
- >industry scenario. The alternative is to have a large government,
- >large social programs, etc.. This won't get us very far if the economy
- >isn't booming. A few government programs do invest in the future:
- >meals for kids, education, infastructure spending. I'm not against putting
- >retirement dollars into those.
-
-
- Something that caught my eye in your response was the sentence "This is the
- invest in private industry scenario." I'm not saying it's good or bad,
- although personally, I lean towards investing in private industry, but a
- red flag went up in my brain and made me think of the following question:
- Would those industries/companies gaining investiture from the government
- have an unfair advantage because of the government wanting to make sure
- they don't fail? I mean, might there be incentive for the government to
- lean their way to make them profitable? It may sound like an extremely
- dumb question, but I just thought this type of private industry investment
- *could* lead to all sorts of problems if it weren't done with some sort of
- checks and balances.
-
- allen
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