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From: suhre@trwrb.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Poor People/Lazy People
Message-ID: <1306@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 12:07:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwrb.1306
Posted: Fri Sep 19 12:07:57 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Sep-86 00:37:56 EDT
References: <1010@cad.cs.cmu.edu> <919@gilbbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: suhre@trwrb.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <919@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>
	Welfare stuff deleted.....

>   Oddly enough, I agree that your money is yours.  What the "libertarians"
>   fail to comprehend is that the very opportunity to produce wealth is a
>   benefit of the society in which we live.  Therefore, it is not completely
>   unreasonable that each individual return a small portion of that wealth
					       ^^^^^
>   to society to provide for societal needs.

	If the tax bill passes, and state taxes are deductible, then
	the marginal rate for us Californians will be 
	.28 + .11 -.28*.11 = 35.9%.  Is this a small portion?
	(Note I've only included income taxes.  Not sales taxes,
	excise taxes, property taxes, etc.)
-- 
Maurice Suhre

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