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Non-Tech : Who Really Pays Taxes?
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To: ztect who wrote (308)8/15/2000 10:36:36 PM
From: Michelino  Read Replies (3) of 666
 
You better stop making sense. They're going to call you a Marxist.

I agree with your points on LBJ, Nixon and the Gipper. I must point out that history records LBJ as coming to a poignant realization about the catastrophe of the war. It's almost seemed, in 1968, LBJ "impeached" himself.

But George Sr.'s claims of convenient memory lapses for every Iran Contra meetings that he attended were one the great cynical acts of the 80s. Trickie Dick taught him well. An act worthy of a former head of the secret police.

Reagan's 1987 speech, to which I provided an earlier link, where he was forced to admit that arms were traded for hostages and where the funds were then illegally diverted to the contras, all against the stated will of congress....and this due to "freelancing by individuals when it comes to our national security" and where "no one kept proper records of meetings or decisions" is quite chilling testimony.

Unlike the demagogues that attempted to cast Clinton out of office for lying about a sexual affair, the democrats of 1987 decided, despite the impeachable nature of Reagan's offenses and admitted lies, that the good of the country lay in putting the crisis behind us. Not so when it came to that great out-of-touch core of the rabid radical congress of 1998/1999 . Never has the nation seen a display of personal vendettas acted out on such a stage. (Ok, maybe against Andrew Johnson)

This thread was about taxes but then I see that none of your questions about comparative wealth between 1980 and 2000 were answered.

Is there no one here who really pays taxes and who really is interested in the truth about wealth distribution as a consequence of recent policy?
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