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To: EricRR who wrote (123101)	8/27/2000 6:20:29 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570293

Ratbert, ask yourself how many telented Cananidians you work with Is there a shortage of talent in Cananidia? (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Anyway, I work with a bunch of French and British types! I personally believe that I should get at least 50% of the total project salary, but that view may not be shared by others. If I could keep 60% of my income, I could retire in a few years and then I wouldn't have to be productive anymore! I hate these types of discussions. In Europe, you don't see the kind of human misery visible in some areas of San Francisco. People are willing to pay to keep all aspects of the environment pleasant. My apologies for the random interspersed sarcasm. Scumbria

To: EricRR who wrote (123101)	8/27/2000 6:30:35 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1570293

Eric, never could get very far into "Atlas Shrugged", my only, rather feeble assault on Ayn Rand, I just kept thinking that most of the characters were jerks. The political conflicts of the '60s are an old tory in this country, no doubt we will see them again before too much longer. Ayn Rand's stuff seems to have been very influenced by the politics of the 1930's, she seemed to have elevated that single individual with the spark of whatever to a high pinnacle. Nothing wrong with that, those people are the drivers of history, but they need history to be at the right point or they just wind up being cranks. I doubt if the upper tax rates were holding anything back, the time was just ripe for a technological revolution and this country was primed to take advantage of it. Tax rates aren't really relevant as long as they are reasonable, if it were really relevant, Texas and Nevada would be the economic Meccas in this country, states like California would be towards the bottom (the mere idea of a state income tax gives me the willies). Reagan took advantage of the changes that Volker had introduced and reaped the benefits of the pain that the country went through during the Carter Administration. Reagan's tax cuts didn't make that much difference, although the deficit he ran up probably did, the 3-4 trillion dollars was one hell of a stimulus. Note: the tax cuts weren't the biggest contributor, even if Reagan had not cut taxes we would have had a big deficit, spending was really out of control.