"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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...snip... Republicans
want people to retain more of their earnings. That is, money
doesn't belong to the government


This is a good thing...
.... providing that the "retainers" are paying their share of the costs
involved in producing those earnings.

Are they paying their share for feeding, housing, and education of the
workforces that they use? Are they paying their share for repairing the
consequences of any mistakes they make? Are they paying their share of the
infrastructure costs for the public transportation systems that they use to
distribute their goods and services?

Who has paid for the disposal of all that nuclear waste generated by the
power plants...or the stacks of chemical and biological WMD still remaining
on American soil? Or the health costs of the respiratory patients due to
pollution?

Are we reaping the benefits and "retaining more earnings" because all these
infrastructures were installed and are maintained by "somebody else" (or
will be paid for by somebody way in the future)???? When Exxon destroyed
the livelihood of a few tens of thousands in Prince William Sound, and was
told that it owed them $5billion, how much did it actually pay?


It IS the job of Governments to ensure that these costs are borne equitably
by all its citizens.

If you say that they are doing a terrible job of it, you will get no
arguement from me.


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*** A great civilization is not conquered from without until it
has destroyed itself from within. ***
- Ariel Durant 1898-1981