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To: bentway who wrote (222620)3/6/2007 2:09:29 AM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Why don't we have a draft, taxes at 91% for the top rate to pay for it, rationing and the measures we took during WW II?


Every time you bring up raising taxes you are careful to throw in a few qualifiers so that the rate hikes excludes yourself. You didn't have to put "for the top rate" in that sentence to make you point.



To: bentway who wrote (222620)3/6/2007 3:38:19 AM
From: geode00  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
The idea is for perpetual war to perpetrate a perpetual wartime dictatorship, er, unitary presidency. If Bush had actually 'won' the war in Iraq in a month, he'd have to spend the rest of the time addressing domestic issues.

That wouldn't do. Domestic issues are boring because they're so important and, besides, there are all those noncompete costplus contracts that have to play out. If there's no war, what in the world happens to those contracts?


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