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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (25792)	2/6/2008 1:08:10 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "a substantial portion of the record tax receipts after enactment of the Roth IRA were from people making voluntary tax payments. I never consider Clinton's "surpluses" without discounting for the anomaly caused by taxing of IRA conversions." Fair enough.... Quick point though: 1) That was a ONE TIME temporary boost to government tax revenues. Somewhat akin (& smaller, I'll wager) then the recent ONE TIME temporary boost to government tax revenues occasioned by Bush's corporate tax holiday for foreign repatriated profits....