From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure Newsgroups: net.politics Title: taxing the unemployed - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5324 Posted: Wed Mar 9 07:14:44 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 06:52:24 1983 #N:sri-unix:13800001:000:370 sri-unix!mclure Nov 25 14:08:00 1982 Just read on the newswire that Reagan is thinking of taxing the unemployed (in order to make it less desirable to be unemployed). I can see some minimal logic in this but it would also seem to screw a lot of the folks who really can't find a job. I suspect that the disadvantage would outweigh any benefit. The liberal wing will "go to town" with this one... Stuart