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To: tejek who wrote (130655)	1/24/2001 2:05:18 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577380

Ted, A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you are talking about real money. A trillion dollar bills lined up end to end will circle the earth over two thousand times. Scumbria

To: tejek who wrote (130655)	1/24/2001 2:27:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577380

I guess for rich Republicans $1.6 trillion is a drop in the bucket. Considering that the government taxes and spends more then that per year and that government taxation and spending is growing every year, $1.6trillion over 10 years doesn't amount to a massive tax cut. Also as a percentage of GDP or a percentage of government revenue the tax cut is smaller then either Reagan's or Kennedy's tax cuts. The $1.6trillion figure is so large because it is over 10 years. If you want to make it sound really large it might be over $300 trillion by the year 3000 but the real measure of a tax cut is the % of the cut not a $ figure that can be arbitraily inflated by increaseing the number of years you count. Tim