Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!brendan From: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Brendan Mahony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Luxury tax on computers! Message-ID: <5119@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 5 Oct 90 03:28:58 GMT References: <4797@crash.cts.com>, Sender: news@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 31 denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes ->No. No. Please don't. If I have to spend a couple of hundred dollars ->when I buy my next commputer, I don't care. What I do care about is ->the fact that every person owes about $2000.00 (yes two thousand dollars) ->per year in interest on the national debt. (national debt/population ->size * interest). Until the deficit goes away, we can't work on the debt. cw1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Cushing Courtney Whitney) writes: >come on, do you really think that the money they raise from this is >going to ever even see the debt. It'll go into more funding for some >other worthless government program. Well the debt won't just go away on its own you know. In 1982 the Hawke Government came to power in Australia. They inheritted foriegn debt of around M$50,000, and a deficit projected at M$15,000. In six years they wiped out that debt. It can be done. In the mean time the private sector debt has risen to M$100,000. Too bad they couldn't make everyone tighten their belts and save a bit of money for a rainy day. -- Brendan Mahony | brendan@batserver.cs.uq.oz Department of Computer Science | heretic: someone who disgrees with you University of Queensland | about something neither of you knows Australia | anything about.