On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:33:31 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:02:53 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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Do you want to pay more in taxes or less? For most people the answer
is easy.

As long as you don't ask them if they understand the long term
consequences
of such a tax decision, you're all set. At least in terms of getting
yourself elected, and the aforementioned consequences don't come down the
chute until your term of office ends and you're back on your ranch.


And just what are those consequences?

An economist can explain that to you.


I'm asking you. I already know.




My only concern is our ability to sell
more bonds when interest rates are a complete snooze, as they are now.

I'm solidly into stocks now. I've almost made up for the slump of the
last 2 years.



We can support our lowered tax
structure as long as we roll back much of the left's entitlement
programs

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...........

Yea, same old. But still just as true.





, and policies such as awarding huge grants of money to study
such trivial items as the sex life of a tse-tse fly.

For people who place zero value on knowledge, this is a great idea. Heard a
great news story today, on NPR, the shameless left wing news source. Some
left wing scientist has discovered something about the inner workings of
mitochondria and how it's connected with genetic aspects of diseases like
diabetes. What a friggin' waste of grant money.

Once again, you take a comment and push it to the extreme. I never
said that we should abandon legitimate medical research. But if you
look at the list of grants and what they were given for, you may be
surprised at the trivial subjects that many of them were paid to
study. There is a web site somewhere where this information can be
found. It's been a while since I've been there so I forgot the URL.
But I'm sure a Google search will turn up something if you are
interested enough to look.




Who needs knowledge when you
have Cheetos, the Simpsons, and that third thing - the opiate of the masses?
You understand that last reference, I'm sure, because you have knowledge.

Opiates imply illicit drugs. But you could be using the term
metaphorically, to refer to such carnal activities such as sex.

We can also
insist that all of those countries that we provided unselfish aid at
times of crisis (That they have promptly forgot) repay much of the
debt that we routinely forgive.

The more money you give back to the people, the better their standard
of living becomes.

Yeah. We'll give you back your share of all research grant money. When
someone in your family gets diabetes, you can conduct your own research.

I won't complain that some research student won't be able to complete
their study of the life cycle of dust mites. The money will be put to
better use buying a new prop for my boat, and a bunch of other things.

Dave