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To: longnshort who wrote (135169)	6/1/2004 4:10:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<There is not equality in taxing incomes. The rich are unfairly abused. > The rich have more to defend. The poor have nothing to lose. Of course the rich pay more taxes. Anyway, it's the way democracy works. Which most people seem to like better than other systems. Most rich people prefer living in democratic countries. Most people get rich in democratic countries, not dictatorships or communist or other systems. The rich use public goods a lot more than do poor people. They drive big SUVs, and RVs, filling the air with smog, blocking the highways and byways, making pedestrian life unpleasant. They drop jet fuel and exhaust out the back as they fly around the sky. Anyway, the law of the jungle is that the rich get to help the poor. Or the poor will kill them and take their goods. Democracy keeps that impetus in check and enables class transitions. Mqurice