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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (155516)	1/23/2006 12:33:48 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793739

Well for anyone with a clue about the implications of complex tax code and NSA wire taps. I would suggest that for every complication of the tax code every American sacrifice on average 1000 to 1 million times the privacy for every change over any loss of privacy do to any monitoring the NSA has ever done. A tax refund doesnt actually complicate the tax code for most people. They just get the check. If you didnt want to use a tax refund, you could just lower the statuatory rates by the amount any new taxes were raised. As for the NSA, I wonder if you would be so trusting of the NSA if a Democrat was in office. Would you trust Hillary to decide which conversations were worth listening to and which were off-limits? The NSA spying is a complicated subject but it is clearly a debate worth having. Clearly the war on terror is going to require some sacrifices of personal freedoms but I'd rather decide where the line that cant be crossed is in public than in some sort of beauracratic decision. But those with any understanding of technology akin to 500 BC simply won't understand. I must say....you are pretty good at calling people idiots without actually using the words. Slacker