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To: Poet who wrote (2598)	10/11/2002 12:03:23 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Thank you Poet...and you are far more generous... Thinking about the issue this morning I was reminded of this: medialab.chalmers.se Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich - yes, richer than a king - And admirably schooled in every grace; In fine we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. - Edwin Arlington Robinson - " The Children Of The Night "

To: Poet who wrote (2598)	10/13/2002 4:24:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Number 3. Meaning (to quote from Solon's post) "I believe that these should be the case so long as the working poor continue to suffer disproportionately to the rich and are sacrificed to most of their actual labour for the public weal; and to the point where normal parameters of commonsense, reason, and self interest meet to form a society which is motivated by concepts of common decency and a recogniton of interdependency" Well that straightens that up. We could have avoided a lot in the first place if you had said something like that rather then supporting the idea that the rich should not get the majority of any tax cut no matter what the conditions. Of course we still disagree about both the overall issue of tax cuts, the desirability for the biggest part of any tax cut to go to those who pay the most tax, and the specific claim that the working poor have to pay the largest percentage of their wealth or income to benefit the public/government, but you have cleared up the logical contradiction from your earlier posts. Tim