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To: Father Terrence who wrote (42058)	6/27/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<If all capital were freed up and the great middle class you always cry about were freed of the burden of earned income taxes, the middle class would be much wealthier.>> The American middle class is much wealthier, and significantly less heavily taxed, than the middle classes of other western democracies. We are awash in an orgy of four-car families with super-polluting SUV's, mountains of trash that will ultimately suffocate us, and a society of waste and consumerism that is a primary factor in the crisis of America's "soul." And if we eliminated income taxes, we would simply be taxed in other ways. You talk of the end of income tax like it is going to free individuals from the responsibility of supporting the state so that we can live in a civilized society, but it will not.