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From: ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Luxury tax on computers!
Message-ID: <1036@mdavcr.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 90 17:02:02 GMT
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In article <474@adiron.UUCP> tro@adiron.comp.sys.mac.misc (Tom Olin) writes:
>In article <1035@mdavcr.UUCP> ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes:
>
>   I applaud Bush for showing some balls and forcing congress to try and
>   produce a realistic budget.  2 Trillion and counting...
>
>I believe the national debt is at 3 trillion, not 2.  Unless you're talking
>about just the increase in the debt since 1980.

Gosh, wasn't it Reagan who was talking about the 1 Trillion dollar
national debt, and how he was going to stomp it out?  I seem to remember
him saying that if you stacked up 1 trillion dollar bills, they would
stretch all the way (partway?) to the moon.

I figure that the national debt is the government's sneaky way of
establishing a credible space program.  Heck, another couple trillion
and we can just CLIMB the damn stack to Mars.  :-)

Eric