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To: thames_sider who wrote (12545)	5/9/2002 2:47:03 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Could you tell us how this works??? How can "those who can pay more opt out"....???? How does "reducing taxes benefit the rich at the expense of the poor"....???? How much does one have to earn where you are to be labeled "poor"......how much tax do they pay? How much does one have to earn to be considered "rich"....? What percentage of their income do they pay in taxes? It's well to the right of the overall European mark. Cries of 'deregulate' are frequently code for 'go to lowest common denominator, and those who can pay more opt out' (e.g., health, education, employee rights). Or code for 'big business before small or individual business', e.g. 'deregulation' of agriculture - which always seems to end with big businesses hogging lots of subsidy for intensive farming. Reducing taxes - again, benefitting the rich at the expense of the poor - is another RW touch. Sure, I'd benefit hugely from similar - but this doesn't make it right

To: thames_sider who wrote (12545)	5/9/2002 5:47:56 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Or code for 'big business before small or individual business', e.g. 'deregulation' of agriculture - which always seems to end with big businesses hogging lots of subsidy for intensive farming. That's because the term deregulation sometimes isn't used to mean something that really is deregulation, but rather changing the current regulation around to favor some politically connected group. Often this requires increasing the level of regulation rather then decreasing it but its called deregulation anyway. Real deregulation in agriculture would be enormously beneficial but the idea rarely gets enough strength behind it to go to far, and when ever actual useful reforms actually do manage to be put in to place they usually get destroyed in time for the next election cycle or the one after that. Tim