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To: aladin who wrote (37398)	4/1/2004 6:37:49 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793974

If we could get 3% working at the current 1% level - the rest of us could stop paying taxes :-) I've been in the three percent. I never felt overly burdened. Never felt rich, either, overly or otherwise. <g> When you look at it from a distance, it does seem unreasonable that one percent of the population should pay a third of the taxes. Twenty percent, maybe, but a third seems like a lot. It also seems unreasonable that half of the population pays little or no taxes. I think that everyone should pay some taxes as a rite of citizenship, although I recognize the impracticality of that. Also think there should a whole lot less federal government to support.