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disque@sauron.unx.sas.com (Thomas Disque) writes: 

>In article <fred_sDtKyIs.EwD@netcom.com>, fred_s@netcom.com (Frederick Scott)
>writes:
>|> rudy@cbnews.cb.att.com (avram.r.vener) writes: 
>|> 
>|> >
>|> >Then again, maybe not. It depends on how many of us get off
>|> >our duffs and tell our congresspersons to get off theirs as
>|> >well to suppor H.R. 3039.  
>|> >
>|> >What is H.R. 3039?  It is a bill indtroduced by Representative
>|> >Dan Schaefer to replace the Income Tax with a fifteen percent
>|> >national sales tax.  
>|> 
>|> And why would we want to do that?  Sounds like something the rich would
>|> enjoy - replace that progressive income tax that grabs a bite out of their
>|> capital gains and replace it with something that only touches spending - 
>|> which is basically all the poorer citizens's incomes anyway.
>|> 
>|> The rich get richer...

>Why do you hate the rich?  What did they ever do to you, except give
>you a job?

A job is (or should be) a mutual and voluntary commercial exchange for the
benefit of both parties in a capitalist economic system.  Sounds as if you
want me to act grateful for having a job.  Sorry, I feel only as grateful
as any barterer might for having found a reasonable (or under the
circumstances "reasonable") trading partner.

>Did you ever consider that someone, somewhere considers you 'the rich'?  How
>does it make you feel to know that they hate you for the things you own,
>rather than who you are?

My situation is not at issue here.  Actually, I'm pretty happy with my
financial lot in life.  (Yet another person who thinks my posted opinions are
dictated by my particular circumstances.  Why are there so many of you?)
All I was doing was questioning whether this tax bill wasn't an attempt to
advance pro-business and pro-rich interests under a cloak of "simplication".
If your response were indicative of how the real sponsors would answer,
one would assume that it was.

Fred