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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (343802)	1/16/2003 2:51:15 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Tax revolt. That's the only thing that'll get attention of the hermetically-sealed foreign country called "Washington DC", the lobbyist-controlled parasitic appendage on the body politic. Start talk of tax-revolt, and they'll suddenly say, "gosh we either have to call out the national guard and force people into concentration camps for refusing to pay, or we'll have to have some kind of mind-control. Or, I guess, we'll have to (choke) cut (sob) spending somewhere."

To: Bill who wrote (343802)	1/16/2003 4:03:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Yes. But majorities of both the dominant parties ('Republi-crats') tend to favor only their own pet constituancies - at the expense of the nation - with preferential tax loopholes and subsidies. Leaving only a brave few to call for comprehensive reforms. Democrats tend to increase spending on 'social' programs and 'transfer' payments, while growing spending on the military-industrial complex slightly less. Republicans tend to increase spending on military, corporate welfare, and 'Big Daddy prohibits this' programs, while growing social spending slightly less. The net effect is nearly the same on the budget: they both run up the debt and grow the over-all size of the government.