----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: Re: Plus the NY Times Re: The Washington Post Editorial on Iraq
> At 11:49 AM 2/5/2003 -0600, you wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:29 AM > >Subject: Plus the NY Times Re: The Washington Post Editorial on Iraq > > > > > > > > > > I would leaven it with the following from the NY Times (Friedman): > > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/opinion/05FRIE.html > > > >I think that is a thoughtful article, which covers some of the same ground > >that I covered in an earlier post. As it stands, Gulf War II will require > >sacrifices of few Americans. My family will not be called upon to make any > >sacrifices. Friends of mine may have to make a very significant sacrifice, > >though, and my thoughts and prayers are with them. > > > >The war itself will not really provide a long term solution to the problem > >posed by Iraq. It will, however, allow us to be in a position to work for > >a true solution. Doing so will require sacrifices of all Americans. I > >hope, after a military victory, that Bush will ask Americans to sacrifice > >as a nation to build a better world. That will require significant > >expenditures in nation-building. It should be funded, in part at least, by > >a repeal of the tax cuts. > > > >Dan M. > > You must have missed-typed. You meant spending cuts in other takerment > programs. > > Kevin T. > Tax the poor. No. One of the problem with a market economy is that it tends to focus wealth in the hands of an every shrinking minority. For example, the bottom 60% of families gained about 2% in income between '80 and '93, even though the number of workers per household increased significantly more than that. I looked this up once, and can again, but IIRC the mean weekly pay for non-management workers fell about 20% during that period. The Bush tax cut will accelerate that. Clinton showed he got the right balance of taxes and spending, and managed to produce a surplus. If you believe that the difference in the income rise of most people during Clinton years and during the Reagan/Bush 1 & 2 years is just a coincidence, then I've got a great deal for you on a great house that just needs some work on a Texas beach. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
