Re: BEFORE Trying To Simply Hike the Fuel Tax . . .

Harold Burton wrote:
> In article <UzGXj.22154$CE1.3535@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Day Brown <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Harold Burton wrote:
>>>>>> You obviously have no clue what ... the progressive
>>>>>> income tax is designed to do.
>>>>> Preserve wealth for the already wealthy, but make it much more
difficult 
>>>>> for everyone else to achieve wealth.  i.e. don't let upstarts get
new 
>>>>> money and displace the old farts, who are no longer competitive.
>>>
>>>> In an honest system, you are correct. But that aint what we have. The

>>>> rich use some of their money to buy political policy favoring them,
and 
>>>> making fair market forces ineffective.
>>>
>>> That's why I said "Preserve wealth for the already wealthy..."
>> I see. So when Hillary made 100 grand on the commodities market over 
>> nite, and who knows how many millions off Whitewater, that's OK now
that 
>> she has many more millions?
> 
> 
> It's how the system works.
For a while. My hillbilly friends tell me we are at that awkward time 
when it is too late for them to fix things, but still too early to drag 
the bastards out to be shot.

progressive taxation would buy a little more time to look for solutions.