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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN =
class=596052818-15092005>Responding to
<SPAN class=596052818-15092005>Alan</SPAN>'s comments, below, which =
many might
echo:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN =
class=596052818-15092005>Alan Barnard
said:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>Responding to Susan's
comments, below, which many might =
echo:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=3><SPAN class=596052818-15092005> </SPAN>but the =
government cut
taxes (oh no, oh my, gloom and doom from some ...) and what =
happend?<SPAN
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</FONT></SPAN>The economy came roaring back and the flow of =
money into
government coffers substantially INCREASED. It always
works.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><SPAN =
class=596052818-15092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>Really? Your share (and mine) of the =
national debt
($7,961,868,911,485 and now increasing at an average of ~ $1,660,000,000 =
per
DAY) is now ~$26,792. If your "tax cut" was greater than that, =
then, yes,
I'll certainly admit that I'm wrong and, at least for you, the =
economy
must certainly be better. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><SPAN =
class=596052818-15092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>If someone gave me a buck (that I didn't =
ask for) and
then said I now owe them a hundred, I wouldn't exactly consider that to =
be a
windfall for me, nor would it be likely to cause me to think better of =
them.
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=596052818-15092005><FONT face=Arial =
color=#0000ff>So,
if you have found a way to make out better by using these "tax cuts," =
please
share with us how you were able to do this. Sharing business advice =
like
that is what makes lists like this so useful for our entire
industry.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=596052818-15092005><FONT =
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<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><SPAN =
class=596052818-15092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>"Don't worry, be happy"? Is that like "And =
so many of
the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so
this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
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<DIV dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><SPAN =
class=596052818-15092005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>I do appreciate that you are trying to look =
at the
positive, but I think a more balanced approach that analyzes a thing for =
what it actually is, both the positive and the negative, is much =
more
useful in the long run. Ditto for judging America's business =
and economic
situation in the coming days by only surveying very wealthy individuals =
or very
wealthy corporations, of which I would bet you a buck the vast majority =
of folks
reading this list are neither.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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