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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.234208.14307@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 23:42:08 GMT
- References: <3=+s5ta@dixie.com> <C17wM1.4zy@encore.com> <=b-s+b=@dixie.com>
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- In article <=b-s+b=@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >wcarroll@encore.com (William Carroll) writes:
-
- >>And what about the people who can't afford cars? You know, those same
- >>working poor that will fair so badly under a gas tax.
-
- >Oh, my heart's breaking. This is such a stale tactic. You people on
- >the Big Government side of the equation seem to always roll out the
- >poor when it is convenient to your argument. Then, of course, you roll
- >'em back to the ghetto when you no longer need them.
- ...
- >The fact is the working poor already pay little income tax because
- >of current exemptions. What this lovely gas tax advocated by Stead and
- >presumably yourself would do is force the poor out of their cars
- >because their real cost of transportation becomes more than they can
- >afford. That's your real goal, isn't it? Keep 'em down in the ghetto
- >where they can't cause too much trouble and can't add to the road
- >congestion. Such hypocrisy is disgusting.
-
- John, John, John ... I'm disgusted with you. How could you assert
- that the goal was to keep them down in the ghetto? Everyone KNOWS
- that the goal is to force them into busses so that they can be bussed
- to minium wage jobs and back like the blacks in South Africa.
- The goal is to extract the maximum labor (and taxes!) from the poor
- slave pool with the minimum consumption. You only addressed the
- consumption side and completely missed the production side.
- Shame on you! 1/2 ;-)
-
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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