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From: mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason)
Subject: Re: The Taxman Cometh for NSERC Award Recipients
Message-ID: <1989Aug26.112358.18816@tmsoft.uucp>
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Organization: TM Software Associates, Toronto
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 11:23:58 GMT

In article <1089@jtsv16.UUCP> brian@jtsv16.jts.com (Brian A. Jarvis) writes:
>From 'way back in high school, the poverty line was defined to be spending
>about 2/3 of your income on necessities:  housing, clothing, food.

Hey, I'm obviously above the poverty line then, I don't have 2/3 of my
income to spend on necessities, over 1/3 goes to income taxes :-) :-)

As one can price housing at arbitrary levels (or at least arbitrarily
HIGH levels), I don't think this is an appropriate measure.

	../Dave