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  Posted By: trythinking @ 10/04/2008 11:11:16 PM

  Bad timing, George. What a wonderful fairy tale of how everything is okay, as long as you leave it alone and not try to influence market forces. Yet it's the fervor for deregulation and the idea that government is evil that got us a $700 billion comeuppance. The failure of Republican-led government to apply anti-trust law and to regulate and enforce our regulatory laws is abhorrent. For you to write about the wonders of unfettered market forces at this time is unbelievalbe.

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  Posted By: lightveder @ 10/04/2008 11:54:32 AM

  But when doing the calculation of your family's share, remember that we don't have a) a system that taxes everyone equally (every person pays $x regardless of income), or b) a flat tax (every person pays x% of income), but rather c) a graduated system in which the top 1% of income earners pay 40% of the taxes. Unless you are in the top 10% of earners, using (c) for your calculation will produce a much lower result than using the more common (a)

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  Posted By: Vcubed @ 09/27/2008 12:57:54 PM

  A beast in a pinafore, your dressing up of the invisible hand.