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From: sohan@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ramakrishna Pillai, Sohan C)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: Slavery
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 18:44:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 17 18:44:00 1985
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>  Guess what???  We are ALL slaves now.  Did you know that an
>average American tax payer pays total taxes of 45%?  The return
>on slaves in the pre-Civil War South was only 12%..Wow!!!  Yep,
>it all started when the IRS took us out the wilderness and forced
>us to work for them until June 12th of each and every calendar
>year.  So how does it feel to be a slave? ;-) 
>
>                                          Clare 


	The returns on slaves in the pre-Civil War South was only
12%. What about the slaves, dummy? What did they get for this 12%?