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To: TimF who wrote (6610)	12/12/2005 9:02:02 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542169

Sure someone making $500k doesn't really need the tax cuts either but I don't see how the issue of what they need is primary or even all that relevant. You have to put any proposal into context. My assumptions are that we want to achieve the following: 1. Balance the budget and have a strong economy (they go hand in hand) 2. People will have different degrees of wealth. Some people will have earned it. Some people will have inherited it. Some people will get it through luck. Some people will get it through outright crooked means. Some people will get it through stretching the limits of lawful and honorable (moral) definitions. Some people will get by manipulating the system (eg Abramhoff, Delay, etc.). No matter. There will be differences. However, we have to make sure there is some degree of fairness. When it come to balancing the budget and issuing tax cuts, we have to make wise choices. I know, you will tell me that you are positive that by cutting taxes for the wealthiest, that will create a bette economy for all. But, you don't know this. You don't have proof of this. You want to give tax cuts to people with more than $500,000.00 per rather than to people with $35,000 per year income because you are certain the economy will be better off - but you don't know this.