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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (4347)	2/3/1998 10:14:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Further down in same article (and as I stated last week) are reasons why Slick has absolutely no actual claim on "balancing the budget", except that "he was there": When wars have ended throughout American history, taxes have invariably gone down. But since the Cold War ended, taxes have gone up. This despite the fact that defense spending will have fallen to just 3.1% of GDP in 1999 from 5.7% in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell. It's this defense decline that accounts for nearly all of the decline in federal spending as a share of the economy since 1989, and has thus made a balanced budget possible. The politicians have had little to do with it. interactive2.wsj.com

To: DMaA who wrote (4347)	2/3/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: username	Respond to of 20981

Hey, why SHOULDN'T I pay? I mean, it's my RIGHT as an American citizen to pay, right? Imagine if EVERYBODY felt like they had to pay ! Then where would we be? NO PROBLEM ! I say, take ALL my money. I have plenty extra, and I don't need it. It's just a psychic burden, and I would feel much better knowing that somebody who doesn't work and doesn't want to is buying lottery tickets with it. Wait. I gotta rethink this for a moment.