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Article #3728Re: I hope it passes
From: Jeffrey C. Dege
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:25
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:25
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:07:30 GMT, Dan Mercer <dmercer@mn.rr.com> wrote: > >It's less than that - if you look at the cutoff points for various tax deductions, >for instance those involving children, rich is defined as about $100,000. Only in the perverse sense of class-warfare tax strategy. In truth, wealth has nothing whatsoever to do with income. Taxing high incomes doesn't tax the rich, it prevents productive workers from becoming rich. Which is why we see so many of the limousine liberals supporting such programs. It's just an more of the "I got mine" policies. It lets those first through the door close it behind them. (In that sense, it has a lot in common with the labor unions, etc.) -- If you're a politician, bureaucrat, or cop whose livelihood depends on the drug war, you're fully as contemptible as any pusher, smuggler, or cocaine baron -- more so, because, unlike them, you profit directly by destroying what was once the greatest freedom ever known to humankind. -- Mirelle Stein, _The Productive Class
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