Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ztect who wrote (30317)	8/20/2000 7:08:21 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You are a good fellow, although I do not think the issue is income disparities so much as it is the maintenance of high employment and economic growth, and thus a real improvement in compensation. Why care what the top brackets make? There is a legitimate argument about government debt. However, the baleful effects on credit markets have not so far appeared, and therefore there is no urgency in reducing it, even if it is a relief to stop wracking it up. It is possible that projections are too rosy. However, forecasts are supposed to be made on the basis of conservative assumptions, and it is also possible that expectations will be exceeded. I do not know enough about how they arrived at these figures to speculate.......