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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (5943)	7/22/2000 4:02:27 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

Hi Sherry.. "Politics consists in the art of taking votes from the poor and money from the rich under the pretext of protecting each from the other." - anonymous __________ Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. -- ~ Anonymous ________ "I rejoice as a moralist at the prospect of a reduction of the duties on wine, by our national legislature. It is an error to view a tax on that liquor as merely a tax on the rich. It is a prohibition of its use to the middling class of our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. Fix but the duty at the rate of other merchandise, and we can drink wine here as cheap as grog; and who will not prefer it? Its extended use will carry health and comfort to a much enlarged circle. Everyone in easy circumstances (as the bulk of our citizens are) will prefer it to the poison to which they are now driven by their government. And the treasury itself will find that a penny apiece from a dozen, is more than a groat from a single one. This reformation, however, will require time." ~ Thomas Jefferson