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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (196771)	8/11/2006 11:02:52 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Welcome to your Depression WR. Thats just damn stupid policy. Even the lefty dems want to index death tax and keep lower rates as much as possible or so they say. You just gave centrists another reason not to vote democratci because the plan for you guys is really tax and spend and spend. Back to college for you for a dose of eco 101, not home eco which was apparently the course you took. (g)

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (196771)	8/11/2006 11:33:55 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

And a SS tax (employer's contribution) on every robot in the country putting an employee out of work. Why not just retrain the employees to maintain and program the robots, and expand our robotic manufacturing base? Because the logic could easily be applied to all of those mom and pop general stores who were put out of business by shopping malls. It is the way of things.. The government has a responsibility to create employment opportunities via retraining of their workforce to meet the demands of the corporate sector, not to restrict innovation and productivity advances. But since we're "waxing reactionary", I'd like to see SS entitlements be restored to the levels they constituted of the Federal Budget back in the 1950s. As it stands right now, 50% of all Federal spending is represented by entitlement programs. Hawk