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- From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Act Now to Fight the Deficit
- Message-ID: <30619@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:31:31 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.193802.11812@adobe.com> <1993Jan26.213107.20770@kodak.kodak.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.213107.20770@kodak.kodak.com> guiguizi@kodak.kodak.com (Paul Guiguizian x79315/AT/2-49-KP) writes:
- >
- >I beg to differ with you.
- >
- >The real problems are located in Washington DC - those people with their
- >hands on the purse strings who can't balance their checkbooks (much less
- >our government's budget)!
-
- They are a problem, but only because we let them be one. The US public
- has long wanted its legislators to grab as much from the public trough
- as they could for their state. And even if some districts aren't like
- this, there is no political cost and much gain for them to bribe
- constituencies with pork barrel projects. If the US taxpayers
- strongly demanded that tough choices be made to reduce the deficit
- then most in Congress (all but some of the very big spenders at heart)
- would follow this direction.
-
- >If the Congress could learn to say NO and we went to zero-based budgeting
- >and the President had a line-item veto, and we eliminated double taxation
- >of dividends and we eliminated taxation of inflation-generated capital
- >gains, THEN THIS COUNTRY WOULD GROW LIKE GANGBUSTERS.
-
- Agreed. So write your CongressCritters and demand this.
-
- >The deficit is not a problem unless the rest of the world calls in our
- >loans.
-
- It already chokes off capital and hurts us in a number of other
- ways. And sooner or later the rest of the world will start to
- realize that this ponzai game can't go on forever, and the party
- could be over really fast.
- --
- Dave Bakken Internet: bakken@cs.arizona.edu
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- The fact that you're paranoid doesn't prove they're *not* out to get you.
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