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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: State Income Tax
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.172433.16219@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1993Jan18.134311.6670@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <C16EL5.27y3@austin.ibm.com>
- Distribution: tx
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:24:33 GMT
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- In article <C16EL5.27y3@austin.ibm.com> johniac@austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan18.134311.6670@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >|> There's a difference between feeling that everyone should be entitled
- >|> to some minimum level of something (food, housing, education, etc.)
- >|> and feeling that everyone should have a Porsche.
- >
- >Only because you put education in column "A" and Porsche in column "B". I
- >might put education in column "B" and sex in column "A", and then argue that
- >the government should provide everyone with a sex partner.
-
- You might, but if you did I would have to say you were just being
- deliberately stupid. John, do you really believe that access to a
- reasonably decent education ISN'T something that people require in
- order to get an even chance in life? Or do you somehow think they are
- simply going to immaculately receive one? Or is it that you simply
- can't understand the difference between "everybody should be entitled
- to some minimum level of food" and "everyone should be entitled to
- steak 5 nights a week"?
-
- >
- >If everybody was entitled to free food, housing, and education, why would
- >anybody work? Who would pay for this? You recently chewed up and spit out
- >a guy who came along a while back and made a similar remark about what the
- >government "owes" people.
-
- Hardly similar. The level of similarity was about the same as that
- between a Chevette and your Porsche of example (to draw an analogy
- that you'll probably misuse a bit later on to complain about my having
- said something I never said).
- >
- >|> My complaint is that
- >|> too many of those 'wealthy people' want to change the laws so that
- >|> they don't have to chip in to provide those minimums so that other
- >|> people have a chance at life.
- >
- >As it turns out, the wealthiest people are usually the most generous. They
- >just want to control how their generosity is spent, and they know a bad deal
- >when they see one.
-
- Yes, they know a bad deal for THEM (in the short run), and recognize
- that it's a better deal for them to keep all their money and let
- someone else worry about the problems not having these kinds of
- programs create.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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