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To: DMaA who wrote (411915)	6/5/2003 2:19:51 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "Got a link that shows this bell curve?" >>> Not yet, but I'm thinking about putting my own together. GAO/CBO analysis - and many others, including the IRS's own studies, point to the great effect all those loopholes and exemptions have compressing the nominal rates. Here's one look at it (it's a very flattened bell curve): Message 19003779 "The laws are so f'ed up I doubt any two people in the country, earning more than $50,000, pay the same effective rates." >>> No argument here!