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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (282685)3/31/2006 9:50:03 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1573852
 
re: But I'm not hung up on the semantics. I'm willing to use different terms if we can't agree on the meaning of a term. I'm more interested in the overall point that more money gets distributed from the government to the middle class than to either the rich or the poor.

Ok, if you are willing to change the discussion... more money comes into the government from specific taxes for SS and Medicare than is dispersed. I would call that a subsidy to the government from the middle class. (Remember the "unified budget").

At the same time the government is giving huge tax breaks to corporate interests. And the "only" definition of these tax breaks are subsides. It is what it is. The rest is just you trying to fit the semantics to your POV. Round peg, square hole... doesn't fit.

John
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