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To: DMaA who wrote (12365)	11/2/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Democrats Tell Voters: Taxes Aren't As High As They Think As Americans prepare to go to the polls, Democrats are trying one last ditch strategy to stave off a possible Republican route. They are telling voters that 'taxes are not as high as they think.' Said one Democratic congressional candidate, "It only takes until the middle of May to pay your debt to the government each year. That is not unreasonable. It's just a little less than half the year. We have been considerate enough to give you the months of June through December to earn enough money to pay for your other obligations. Remember that when you go to the polls." One Democrat Senator, Carol Money-Brawn, was overheard telling potential voters in her state, "Money belongs to the Federal Government. You should be thankful that we don't take all of it from you." Still another Democrat, Michelle Harris, who is running for Governor in his state said in a speech yesterday, "If you work just 5 to 10 hours of overtime a week or have your spouse take second job, then paying your taxes is a breeze." This new positive message is designed to help voters realize that " it just feels like they are giving all of their money to the government. Reality is that just a little less than half goes to Uncle Sam."

To: DMaA who wrote (12365)	11/2/1998 5:01:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

"A little bit of money" is relative, it's one of those Everett Dirksen "billion here, billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money" things. The last series of ABM tests failed miserably, I believe. There's plenty of research going on, the push is always to deploy something NOW, when it's not clear if anything would really work. Then, there was the famous original Reagan era "Star Wars" thing, based on the Livermore X-ray laser contraption, where you blew up a nuke in space and had this fancy set of lasers attached to it that focused 100 beams simultaneously on the incoming and shot'm all down, in the microseconds before the whole thing vaporized. The Larry Labs people said it was just a matter of engineering, but it turns out it was actually a matter of them misinterpreting their nuclear test data. The nuke-driven X-ray laser never worked.