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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
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- Subject: Re: "Trivial" Felonies (Was: Zoe Baird, Support Her !!!!!!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.93Jan27091246@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:12:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.215040.1073@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In-Reply-To: jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:50:40 GMT
-
- <In article <1993Jan25.215040.1073@cbnews.cb.att.com> jmk@cbnews.cb.att.com (joseph.m.knapp) writes:
-
- <What I find interesting is that this appointment was supposed to be ground
- <breaking in that Baird would have been the first woman in the AG role. She
- <was a good example of a woman balancing her career and family life. So
- <what do they "get" her on? Her means of procuring child care so that she
- <could further her career.
-
- Huh. Baird's household gross income is $500,000 per year;
- there are quite a few people whose income is 5% of that
- who do NOT break the law.
-
- <I don't consider this a coincidence. The so-called
- <family values types have always looked askance at daycare as an enabler of
- <"the breakup of the American family," i.e., it allows mothers to compete
- <in the workplace. I attribute the flap about her daycare to the same cause
- <as the railing about Clinton's "draft dodging," pot smoking,
- <whatever:
-
- Hardly; some of us are concerned that the Clintoon
- administration is continueing the two-tier law structure,
- whereby middle-income and poor folks get hammered for
- violations of the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli law and FICA
- regulations, while rich yuppies such as Baird receive
- a mere slap on the wrist.
-
-
- Can Knapp explain why Mexican-American farmers who barely
- graduated from high school are expected to fully
- understand and comply with immigration and tax law,
- while the chief lawyer for Aetna and her Yale law-professor
- partner get away with claiming "we didn't know"?
-
-
- <it's
- <the death rattle of the old order as it's fading from power. The
- < hippie/yuppie/whatever-diminutive-you-like generation is here: get used
- < to it. :-)
-
-
- Swell. So we can look forward to more of the same; "law"
- enabling millionares to dodge taxes while family farms
- are being sold to pay off huge fines.
-
- Ignorance of the law IS an excuse, if one is rich enough
- or a "Friend of Bill"; the rest of us can pay or go to
- jail.
-
- Somehow, this "change" looks mighty familiar....
-