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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:27:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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...and the cute animal and children’s charities win every time.
An example.
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Not every time. But the alternative is for me to give $100 for charity to a
government, and the government takes $93 of it to sustain its own
bureaucracy and $7 gets to the people who will benefit from it. Not very
efficient.
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And of that $93, $47 goes to big-corporate welfare, $45 goes to big-corporate
military (and of that $45, $44 goes to the Friends-Of-Cheney corporate
group), and $1 maintains the bureaucracy.
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If ONLY we could get a 1:7 ratio between bureaucracy and benefits delivered, I’d
put up with the siphoning. But it’s hardly ever that good. Sometimes it’s 1:7
the other way. Which was the point J was making with his silly made up numbers.
Once Kerry gets in who gets the 92 then? Or are we suddenly going to see that 92
drop to something a lot less and get an 80% rebate of taxes paid or ???
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Sure, but that's not the entirety of what I've outlined. My example is still a 93:7 ratio of government machinery:benefits delivered. (...) What happens when Badnarik gets in(1)? Will all taxes be wiped away with a stroke of his pen? Obviously (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) And of that $93, $47 goes to big-corporate welfare, $45 goes to big-corporate military (and of that $45, $44 goes to the Friends-Of-Cheney corporate group), and $1 maintains the bureaucracy. Dave! (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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