Re: shuttle disaster
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 03:59, James Buchanan wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > "James Buchanan" <jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au> writes:
> > >
> > > > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in
> > > > poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding,
> subsidise
> > > > pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget
> all
> > > > gone ;-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > <sarcasm>
> > > Of course! If we spent that much, people with enough money to have
> > > significant amounts of it in taxable stock accounts wouldn't be
> able to
> > > keep it all!
> > > </sarcasm>
> >
> > Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to
> earn
> > it.
>
> I've lost the thread here, I don't really "get" the joke - can someone
> explain this for me please. Maybe it's because I'm not American. :-)
It seems as if there's a lot of (US) Americans on the list who think
that Federal projects are a very good way to solve many/most of
society's ills, and thus taxes are a Good Thing. Likewise, there
seems to be another faction that thinks that gov't mostly can't find
it's arse with both hands, a map, a flashlight (electric torch), and
GPS, and thus excess taxes are a Bad Thing, because, by and large,
the Private & NGO sectors can do a more efficient job with the money.
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