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Subject: Re: Re: voting (more FLAME) - (nf)
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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