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In article <1992Aug7.181803.9009@mercury.unt.edu>, ian@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Ian Parberry) writes:
> In article <1992Aug6.152143.2386@novell.com> bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug3.195722.10765@mercury.unt.edu> ian@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Ian Parberry) writes:
>>>In article <1992Jul30.233747.16900@montagar.lonestar.org> davidc@montagar.lonestar.org (David L. Cathey) writes:
>>>> If you count it up, government gets
>>>> close to over 40% of ALL your money.  Isn't that just more than enough?
>>>
>>>Believe me, we've got it easy here.  I don't believe that the tax rate can
>>>be lowered here without further degradation of services.  Civilization ain't
>>>cheap.  Talk is.
>>
>>I find this argument lacking since it seems to assume that one
>>can't/shouldn't complain about something if you can find someone else
>>worse off.
> 
> You're being silly.  That wasn't the point.  Perhaps I wasn't being clear
> enough: let me rephrase myself.  I think we are at a local optimum as
> far as the amount of taxes that we pay.

	Okay, I'll grant that if we were at an optimum, then we shouldn't
complain.  However, with all the goverment waste, I think we are not at
an "optimum" right now.

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> Ian Parberry ian@ponder.csci.unt.edu (817) 565-2845 Dept. of Computer Sciences,
> Univ. of North Texas, P.O. Box 13886, Denton, TX 76203-3886
> "Bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy"
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