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Re: I hope it passes

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From: S. Smith
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:25
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On 02 Feb 2004 22:18:26 GMT, jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
wrote:

>On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:17:54 GMT, Bolwerk <no@no.org> wrote:
>>On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:59:33 -0500, Scott Hedrick wrote:
>>
>>> Amazingly enough, these are also the same people that pay a
>>> disproportionally large share of taxes. The top 1% of earners pay 34% of
>>> income taxes. Tax-breaks for the rich are *really* tax breaks for the tax
>>> payers.
>>
>>Really? Does the money trickle down from the super-rich to everyone else
>>too? 
>
>Yep.

No, it really doesn't for the most part.

>>How does that happen? 
>
>Basic economics.

It's called "trickle down economics" and it doesn't work.
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From: S. Smith <scott.smith@visi.com>
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Subject: Re: I hope it passes
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