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To: LindyBill who wrote (78839)	10/19/2004 3:54:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793862

<the hard-pressed American taxpayer maintains 12 aircraft carrier battle groups, an incredibly lethal air force, and divisions of superbly trained and motivated marines and soldiers ready, willing and demonstrably able to reach out and “touch” any corner of the globe. > Lindy, I'm paying a goodly chunk of that too via dividend tax and tax on interest payments! I'm paying more than a lot of Americans! My company, QUALCOMM Inc, is paying umpty $millions, or even $billions now, and the thousands of my employees are paying $billions in taxes too. Okay, it's true I'm not hard-pressed to pay it and I'd rather hire USA soldiers than NZ social welfare bludgers who torture and terrorize children, but it's still a cost. I also paid a BIG load of money via my Globalstar investment, nearly all of which went down the gurgler in salaries and payments to QUALCOMM, Loral and others to get the thing up and running. There was a LOT of tax on those salaries. If I'd kept my money over here, and Globalstar on the ground, I'd have been a lot better off and if nobody else had paid either, then the government wouldn't have collected all that tax. We foreigners are paying for a lot of the USA military machine and general government operations. No taxation without representation. Hmm, that's got a nice ring to it. I should copyright/trademark it. Votes should be issued with 1 vote for each $1000 of tax paid to the government. None of this one man/woman one vote nonsense. Mqurice