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To: TigerPaw who wrote (163397)	12/20/2000 11:38:42 AM
From: jim kelley	Respond to of 176387

I have no way of knowing this but you may be correct.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (163397)	12/20/2000 11:59:40 AM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

You'll likely be wrong, IMO. I see a decline in governmental revenues over the next year or two even if the economy continues to grow. That has happened very rarely. Even if you said over a two quarter period I would doubt it. But a decline over a one or two-year period? Among other reasons, you are ignoring the 2001 step up in basis that many will use to establish the right to the new 18% cap gains rate for stocks held 5 years or more. This will bring in a sizeable one time chunk.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (163397)	12/20/2000 8:26:17 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

>>I would maintain that a lot of people who bought in high, did so with funds from previously highly profitable stock sales. The net effect is that they still have a reasonable gain from the past couple of years<< tp, and you would be wrong. check out volume rise substantially as the price rises. the bottom line is that many, many more shares were purchased at much higher levels than at much lower levels. the avg dell investor is toast. sure, some folks out there bought dell at $1.00 post split. for each one of those, though, 10 clowns bought dell at $60. dell need not fall to par for folks to lose all their gains. in fact, it has already happened to most investors.