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To: Fred Levine who wrote (67285)	1/10/2003 9:22:25 AM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

<all income should be taxed progressively> Sounds good. Now define income?

To: Fred Levine who wrote (67285)	1/10/2003 12:04:39 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Fathers, My father attended CCNY and Brooklyn Law School at night during the thirties while working as a law clerk at Con Ed. His father emigrated from Russia, sold second-hand clothes from a pushcart, and barely spoke English. As a ten year old boy, my father sold newspapers in front of the Capitol building in Atlanta. His customers were prosperous looking attorneys in business suits. He determined then and there that he wanted to become a lawyer and moved to NY for what I am told was the only free education available at that time. He graduated from CCNY with a shiny phi beta kappa key and a devotion to become a middle class American. Although he did not succeed in climbing the corporate ladder at Con Ed, he established a successful solo practice in Jackson Heights, NY, where he primarily served a clientele of immigrants and first generation Americans like himself. As a child growing up in a Levitt house in Hicksville, I did not see my father very much. Most of the time he did not get back home until I was already asleep. I think night school played a role in making him a workaholic. He sent his three children to Cornell, the University of Chicago and Harvard. Not wanting to follow too closely in his footsteps, I stopped practicing law at the age of 48 when my first child was born. I am a "recovering attorney". Fred - What was the subject of your graduate work at Northwestern and what is your current occupation? Sam

To: Fred Levine who wrote (67285)	1/10/2003 2:14:35 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 70976

< The Casino at Monaco foots the bill. They cheated me there and I have never been screwed in a more elegant place!> Don't the casinos follow some general "rules" of a suitable cost for a suitable time of entertainment??? Something like, on the average, statistically, $xxx(x) loss per hour for the excitement and elegance?? Ilmarinen Not an expert, but a buddy, long time ago, worked on one of the domestic gambling devices "for the masses", in the mechanical days, they were "mechanically tuned" to have a +/-0 return for a "skilled person" starting with something like $200, in one hour. However, there was some additional functions, like the "machine" grabbing a certain percentage in a very stable statistic way, making "the hole thing possible". Additionally, as with most things in life, when reaching the zero cash point, the game and the statistics obviously ended, at a total loss of the capital one started with. Considering the statistical long term fluctuations, this minor nonlinearity, end of game at zero, makes al the general rules of statistics kind of strongly skewed. (it wasn't/isn't a one handed bandit(?), much smarter and more factors giving a higher value of entertainment, as well as "acquired motorical skill")