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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: JohnM who wrote (140847)7/14/2010 8:25:10 PM
From: Paul Smith  Read Replies (3) of 542836
 
keep the taxes as unequal as they now are

What proportion of all taxes are paid by the undefined rich?

What percentage of the population currently pay zero Federal income tax?

Yeah, taxes sure are unequal.

campaign against middle class workers.

Many of the people that are furious about this situation are the middle class. The non-government middle class. We have to stop protecting government workers at any cost. Too much job security combined with gold plated benefits. It will cost all of us middle class people. All taxes are going up.

As for "surgical approaches to dealing with public sector issues," the time to do very small things around the edges is long past. The problem is way too big. The long ongoing public policy malpractice is now on full display. The unions have gotten too much and probably prevented those that wanted to do "surgical approaches" (whatever that actually is) in the past.
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