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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (24523)	7/14/2000 9:19:27 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

We're not all Marxists. Some of us are fighting back. Socialism is like being pregnant. A woman can't just be "a little bit pregnant." Neither can a government be "a little bit socialist." The USA is a socialist country and has been since at least the days of FDR. FT

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (24523)	7/15/2000 10:06:34 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The ability to distinguish is the ability to think. It is true that socialists favored a progressive income tax, with the emphasis on progressive, for the purposes of income equalization, which, be it noted, has never been achieved. Since I had specifically favored a flat- tax, and asked what was wrong with an income tax per se, the issue of progressivity was pretty much off the table. In any case, even if we were discussing a progressive income tax, the fact that one plank was shared with Marx would not make the other "Marxist". One could, for example, support modest progressivity as a way of easing the burden on those who are less affluent, without aiming at income equalization......