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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Socio-economic cancer
Message-ID: <1316@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 13:37:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 31 13:37:38 1984
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>I don't think it's 'too bad' that the most likely motivation
>for a revolt is taxation.  What a person's pocketbook represents
>to him is survival.  Those of us who are in this business
>usually make enough to lose recognition of the fact, but
>for most people, a tax increase means having to go without.
>For computer types, and for the rest of those who may be
>categorized as 'labor aristocracy', taxes are a nuisance.
>For the people who don't have what they need, tax is the 
>difference between an empty cupboard and an empty belly.
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