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From: lmg@houxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.taxes
Subject: Re: earmarking tax money
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Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 19:21:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 19:21:03 1983
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	Earmarking tax money sounds like a great idea and I'd love
to try it, but I doubt the results would be much different from what
we see now.

	Realize: We get the opportunity every two and four and six
years to vote out of office the fools who are squandering our money.
I did my part to try to defeat the incumbents just yesterday. The result?
The rest of the damn voters re-elected them!

	Do you really believe that the same people who routinely
re-elect the Congress will make wiser decisions if they earmark the
money themselves? Perhaps so, but I sincerely doubt it.

	Maybe a better way will come when the whole country is linked
by two-way cable systems. Then we could disolve the Congress, have a
national town meeting and vote on each item in the Federal Budget ourselves.


					Larry Geary
					AT&T Information Systems
					Holmdel, NJ ...houxb!lmg