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To: Srexley who wrote (129625)	2/28/2001 12:25:15 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

scott, There's not a lot of evidence that the current tax structure is hurting our economy. When Clinton passed the tax increases in 1993, Republicans howled that it would destroy the economy. We had a boom instead. I think we should stop pretending we have a surplus -- we don't; it's an artifact creating by the Treasury taking all the payroll taxes and leaving IOUs behind. We should concentrate on how we intend to fund the Government and Social Security when the boomers start to retire.

To: Srexley who wrote (129625)	2/28/2001 1:04:16 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 769667

In St. Louis, Dead Are Causing Lively Debate With Their Votes By STEPHANIE SIMON, Times Staff Writer ST. LOUIS--The dearly departed seem to have quite a constituency around here. At least three dead aldermen registered to vote in Tuesday's mayoral primary. So did one alderman's deceased mother. And a dead man was listed as the chief plaintiff in a lawsuit filed on election day in November. He was having trouble voting, the suit said, due to long lines at his polling station. So he petitioned a judge--successfully--to keep city ballot boxes open late. Over at the dingy county election board headquarters, harried staffers now are reviewing thousands of registration cards--and finding ever more curiosities: addresses that turn out to be vacant lots, civic leaders double-registered at bogus addresses, convicted felons illegally seeking ballots and, always, more deceased voters. "We find more every day," said election director Kevin Coan. Not surprisingly, accusations of fraud are flying. And so are calls for top-to-bottom reform. "Our election system in St. Louis is like Ft. Knox without locks on it," said Alderman James Shrewsbury, whose mother was posthumously registered. "There needs to be a housecleaning." The most urgent mop-up job concerns 3,800 registration cards dropped off just before the deadline to vote in the primary. Election workers became suspicious when they found the name of Albert "Red" Villa, an alderman who died in 1990, on one card. At least a third of the registrations turned out to be fraudulent, Coan said. (cont) latimes.com