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To: combjelly who wrote (197700)	8/14/2004 10:46:57 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586222

That moves onto pretty theoretical ground. Look at any developed country, all have a tax and social system that discourages the upwardly mobile a lot more than the US. There may be some undeveloped or developing country that has a system that is more upwardly mobile friendly than the US, but I am not aware of it. A strong argument can be made that the US is much LESS "upwardly mobile friendly" (UMF) than it was, for example, 30 or 40 years ago. While we DID have tax rates as high as 91% (which Reagan did away with), they were applied in extremely limited circumstances. Today, liberal social programs (Social Security and Medicare, as well as the liberal threat to socialize healthcare) threaten the very existence of our upwardly mobile class. The upwardly mobile are precisely what caused our country to become the world's sole economic superpower. And today, liberals threaten its existence. Liberalism bites the hand that feeds it.