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To: Your Nightmare

"Would it surprise you that, as a percentage of GDP, tax receipts are at their lowest since 1959 and that they really haven't varied much in the last 60 years? It would by looking at that table."

The graph has nothing to do with the point you are making. The graph is about spending, not taxes. Would it surprise you to learn that since spending has gone up and taxes haven't kept pace, that we would have a deficit?


108 posted on 05/30/2005 6:48:29 AM PDT by phil_will1
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To: phil_will1
The graph has nothing to do with the point you are making. The graph is about spending, not taxes.
Really? When I look at the graph in #82 I see a big, all-caps "TAXES" underneath it. Don't you see it?
109 posted on 05/30/2005 6:54:20 AM PDT by Your Nightmare
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To: phil_will1; Your Nightmare
Would it surprise you to learn that since spending has gone up and taxes haven't kept pace,...

Is that the official goal of the Fairtax, keeping taxes up to pace with spending, rather than spending with taxes?

You, being a spokesperson for the Fairtax...

116 posted on 05/30/2005 10:23:12 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Is calling for energy independence a "protectionist" act?)
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