Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!hdt From: hdt@sunybcs.UUCP (Howard D. Trachtman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Ronnie Ronnie....Balanced Budget Message-ID: <1121@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 13:14:15 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.1121 Posted: Thu Mar 1 13:14:15 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 00:41:04 EST References: <1020@proper.UUCP> (sorry) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 12 >Lastly, to have individual taxpayers decide how their tax > dollars are spent would be foolish. Remember, the largest >amount of tax revenue comes from the smallest percentage of people, >and, quite frankly, these poeple would not be willing to put I really don't believe that last "statistic". Does anyone have the numbers. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the middle 60% paid 50% of the taxes. Howard Trachtman SUNY/Buffalo {harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!hdt hdt.buffalo@rand-relay