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Re: Intellectual Property Question
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Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:56:27 GMT
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4758235-103677,00.html


Richard: use Bush’s tax cut to buy shares in these companies and live on the dividend. When you spend the income, your unemployed countrymen will get jobs flipping ‘burgers (say) for you!

Have you never heard of “trickle-down-economics”?!

What’s that? Bush only gave the wealthy a tax cut? He’s spending how much in Iraq? He’s raised how much for his “re-election”? Surely not!

Scott A



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(...) Bill Maher has rightly identified trickle-down-economics as the rich saying to the poor "We're pissing on you." (...) Robert Reich, who, as a Clinton cabinet member, will no doubt be demonized by Dubya apologists, had some interesting (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 26-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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Yeah, those are all good questions... Capitalism is dead too, though. I have given it long and serious thought and there's a very good reason that Roddenberry never really investigated the economy of the future in Star Trek -- the main thing is that (...) (21 years ago, 25-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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