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Re: Income tax repealed...maybe...

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From: Thomas Disque
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00
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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...
|> 
|> Fred

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

Tom Disque
"My opinions, not SAS Institute's"
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From: disque@sauron.unx.sas.com (Thomas Disque)
Subject: Re: Income tax repealed...maybe...
Date: 1996/07/01
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