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To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (382913)	3/31/2003 2:58:40 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

gerand, re:So its ok to tax iraqi oil to pay for social services over there but not to tax income in the US to pay for social services here? Hypocrisy No, you don't understand a simple difference: Iraqi oil fields are a national asset - i.e. the money made from them pays for services to the Iraqi people - or at least after Saddam is gone they will. American companies are not nationalized, therefore only the owners and investors make money from American companies. Citizens in the USA pay for services via their Tax dollars. Now if you'd like to let the government run all our businesses that would be different.

To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (382913)	4/1/2003 12:26:15 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Hypocrisy None at all on my part. American income is already taxed to pay for social services. That is why liberals so often sit on their butts producing nothing but whines while the rest of us feed them. Moreover, income is already being taxed to pay for infrastructure. Were America to undergo a devastating war as is happening in Iraq, I would certainly be receptive to our taking public resources to rebuild our infrastructure. Since wealth distribution systems have so long been corrupt in Iraq, there being little freedom amongst Iraqis to as individuals exploit the resources of their own soil, it is not hypocritical at all to finally use those resources to repair and build a society that for so long has been oppressive. That sort of oppression simply does not exist here in America. But where it did exist, America did virtually the same thing it will do in Iraq. It took public resources to try and repair the damage. That is what the Freedman's Bureau aimed to do, as well as scores upon scores of publicly funded schools. That is what we tried (but failed) to do with Affirmative Action. So your using the word "hypocrisy" here only shows you have little grasp upon what is happening under your own filthy nose. Like most liberals, when you fail to get your way on one issue (like universal healthcare), you throw childish temper tantrums and fail to see the obvious public generosity all around you. Get off the dang floor and act like a dang man for a dang change.