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- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.041147.16957@microsoft.com>
- Date: 02 Jan 93 04:11:47 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec31.225104.3841@tessi.com> <2381@shaman.wv.tek.com> <1ho6kcINNjih@usenet.pa.dec.com> <2399@shaman.wv.tek.com> <1htk7kINN939@usenet.pa.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec31.225104.3841@tessi.com> allen@tessi.com wrote:
- > 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.
-
- Oh, you mean like government has been doing for years with my tax dollars.
- Investing it in the military industrial complex instead of consumer oriented
- R&D.
-
- petesk...
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