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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (180648)	1/16/2004 1:55:43 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572580

I am describing my friends who were born with 80 or 800 million dollars, asking them to help pay for the wars, the public schools, the failing hospitals and the rest. Not too much to ask. Why does Bush give away so much of the peoples' money to those who need it not at all in a hundred lifetimes? That is the greatest mystery. No other country in the world does this. And in the 90's when we raised taxes on the rich, the rich actually got richer, richest, richer than ever. A lesson for the GOP to learn. Without a strong middelclass, no one really wins. As of now. Bush can beaten on one isue, the fact that he has given away 700 billion dollars to those who don't even need it or want it. And that has created ZERO jobs. Trickle down does not work.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (180648)	1/16/2004 8:56:21 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572580

That's right, it's a democracy, not necessarily a socialism. What you are describing would make the French proud, not to mention Marx and Lenin. No wonder you're supporting Kerry. Sorry, Tenchusatsu, the above statement makes no sense. We have always had a progressive tax system where the rich pay a bigger share. Its just not as progressive as the French or German system, neither of which are socialistic countries. They are just more socialistic than we are. The right is so used to using scare words like socialism that it no longer knows what't real and what's not. ted