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To: JDN who wrote (125552)	2/6/2001 10:42:17 PM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

JDN--Thanks for your very lengthy message, almost all of which I disagreed with, unsurprisingly... Let me ask you a question: do you think that Bill Gates pays taxes at the 39% level, or at the 15% level? I'm betting that it's the former, not the latter, despite the fact that he has access to a phalanx of tax attorneys. You obviously disagree with that, but I'd bet ya dollars ta donuts that you'd be wrong....

To: JDN who wrote (125552)	2/7/2001 9:22:39 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I can say from my experience as a tax advisor that everything JDN says mirrors my experience. The most important thing he has said tho has to do with government waste. My experience with the federal government mirrors his as well. Think about this - Of each $1 of tax allocated to Health and Human Services 25 to 33 cents gets out to those who need it. If the same $1 were paid directly to the states (who actually do the work) the federal bureaucracy could be largely eliminated. This would multiply the taxes getting to the needy by a factor of 3 to 4 times. Don't think that the democrats in Washington don't know this - they are just more interested in their power (think about which party federal workers support) than they are interested in those in need. This manifests itself in may other ways and it's the reason I became a conservative.