Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: voting (more FLAME) - (nf) Message-ID: <6018@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Mar-84 23:01:23 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6018 Posted: Sun Mar 4 23:01:23 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 02:22:35 EST Lines: 16 #R:yale-com:-296400:uokvax:5000082:000:778 uokvax!emjej Mar 1 08:37:00 1984 What does affirmative action have to do with democracy, save in the same fashion totalitarianism has something to do with democracy, or leprosy with health? Re taxes: the use of the term "progressive" to refer to graduated taxes is one of the best semantic scams since a tiny minority of the Russian people labeled themselves Bolsheviks ("the majority"). Obviously if income taxes place a greater burden on people with greater income then a reduction in income taxes will mean a larger absolute reduction in taxes for people with greater income. So what? "Progressive" taxes penalize success. (I understand that for a time, one could be taxed for more than 100% of one's income in England; this was changed, but for a different reason than the obvious one.) James Jones