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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Supply-side Economics: the Savings Rate
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:42:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 13:42:29 1985
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> From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
> >The great theorist explains all again.  Phooey, Sevener, you
> >seem to have Tip O'neil's party line rhetoric down pat.
> >First, supply side economics DOES depend on consumer spending,
> >not the savings rate.  Second, when are you going to admit
> >that social spending far outweighs military spending?
> >T. C. Wheeler
> 
> In fact, according to the _Information_Please_Almanac_ for 1985,
> social welfare spending for 1982 (the latest year given) accounts
> for more than all the other federal outlays *combined*.  51%.
> 
> David Olson

Heaven forbid we should spend money helping people, that could be
used to build weapons to destroy our enemies!

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