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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: VAT
Message-ID: <653@loral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 22:03:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 22:03:01 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 03:51:36 EST
References: <701@oliven.UUCP> <524@tty3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <524@tty3b.UUCP> mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes:
>
>Here it is.....at long last.....Ronald Reagan's tax package.
>
>Simply a more sophisticated 
>way of doing what Reagan's tax program has done for
>the last four years -- transfer the burden from the highest income earners to
>middle- and lower-income earners.  Of course he'll embrace VAT.  It's what
>Reaganomics is **really** all about.
>
>Mike Kelly

	I'd like to see this substantiated.  As pointed out recently in
the Wall Street Journal, rich taxpayers are parting with MORE dollars,
and paying a HIGHER share of the total tax revenue than before Reagan, while
poor taxpayers are paying FEWER dollars and a SMALLER share.

	I've seen this claim over and over again, in this newsgroup and
elsewhere.  I have yet to see anyone making this claim back it up.

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