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From: holt@parsec.UUCP
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Subject: Re: give-aways - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 01:13:40 EST
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parsec!holt    Apr  3 13:15:00 1984

"In the first place 60% of federal income taxes go to the
military to prepare for War."
	tim sevener

Where in the world did you come up with this figure?  No breakdown of the
budget that I have seen shows anything near this impossibly high 
percentage.  For one thing roughly 25% of the budget is used to pay interest 
on the budget deficit.  If we believed your 60% figure, then only 15% of
the budget went to social programs and all the other programs of the federal
government.

				Dave Holt
				Convex Computer Corp.
				{allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!convex!holt