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To: Poet who wrote (2187)10/5/2002 5:40:21 PM
From: Original Mad Dog  Read Replies (1) of 7689
 
That's not my point.

And I would never cut off the fat. <g>

The unlucky are a tougher question, because many of them deliberately make choices that result in their "unluckiness", and having to pay for their continued poor choices does rankle quite a bit.

The lazy (except me, of course <g>) are a different matter. Even the poor in the U.S. today have a higher absolute (not relative to others today but compared to others throughout history) standard of living than in the past. I fail to see why I should work longer hours to support them.

All I am saying is that when you raise rates you don't get more money. You get less economic activity. You raise the price of anything you get less demand eventually.

Very little of the money goes to the poor anyway. Most of what does is through Social Security (going to elderly and disabled poor), and that is a modest percentage of the tax burden in the higher brackets.
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