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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (6438)	3/11/2004 7:45:32 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 81568

Nice. :-)

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (6438)	3/11/2004 7:53:32 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 81568

Fair enough. All taxpayers should have a rate increase to balance the budget. Unfortunately, it is an election year, so it would be murder to a candidate to increase everyone's taxes...he would lose the job he is after. It is all about the job, not the people. By that standard, not counting the SS surpluses and going by the Presidents latest budget, we're about $800 billion short of what would be fair taxation.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (6438)	3/11/2004 8:17:42 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

you're begging the question and ignoring my point. The "fair share" language is used to suggest that people in higher brackets are somehow not paying THEIR "fair share." You're talking about a different issue. But I suspect you know that. As does Poet.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (6438)	3/29/2004 5:54:09 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 81568

I think fair taxation would be taking in as much as you spend during an expansion. So if the government spent another trillion dollars per year then it would be fair to increase taxes by something like a trillion and a half? If it spent twice as much then it would be fair to increase taxes by over two and a half trillion dollars?? Or for that matter would you consider it fair that everyone including the wealthy only pay .5% of their income in taxes as long as we slash government spending by enough that the budget is still balanced? Defining a fair level of taxes by having the budget balanced doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Tim