well see... no. Ten percent of ten thousand is a lot more in economic terms than ten percent of fifty thousand. That said, I am all in favor of simplifying the tax system. We're both worried about welfare, but I am worried about the expensive kind.
On 2/6/07, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fortunately, most of the country does not agree with you. > > Again, I would much prefer a flat tax. I think our government, on all > levels, is extremely wasteful. I hate the laziness and abuse that is rife > in > the support system. I hate the greedy pigs taking profit at the public > trough. I hate the corporate welfare. I hate the fact that much if not > most > of our sets of rules and laws and codes are made to give certain people > preferantial treatment. > > But, overall, I am pretty happy about where we are as a country. > > Needs a lot of work, but I think our hearts are in the right place, and we > have the means to get where we want to go. > > On 2/6/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jerry wrote: > > > Is it fair, if you look on it from a "who can affored a little more > > without > > > eating dogfood or losing their house.", then it is a little more fair. > > > > That's like saying, "if you look at the burglary from the thief's > > point of view, then, yeah, the thief did the right thing." > > > > I don't believe in governmental Robin Hoodism. > > > > If something is important enough to all of us as a country, then all > > of us as a country should pay for it. If it's only important enough > > to ask some of us to pay for it, then only those that pay should get > > the service. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226980 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
