On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:35:17AM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > In any event, you will please quote a passage where GD actually > recommends raising taxes.
Since I didn't claim he "recommends" it, I don't have to. I implied that raising taxes was a solution that he has discussed. And he has. Here is a sampling of 3 emails: Denton[1]: > Doubling the size of the amount of income subject to SS tax just > about takes care of that. Denton[2]: > To fully fund this 2052 shortfall would require additional revenue of > 0.54 percent of GDP, less than we are currently spending in Iraq. Or, > as Paul Krugman noted in The New York Times, about one quarter of the > revenue lost each year by President Bush's tax cuts, "roughly equal to > the fraction of those cuts that goes to people with incomes of $500,000 > a year." Denton[3]: > The new accounts could be paid for by reclaiming a small fraction of the > massive tax giveaways for the rich that Bush pushed through in his first > term. (Those tax cuts cost the federal government $100 billion-a-year.) > GD has previously said that he regards the income tax as invasive, > unconstitutional, a fundamental threat to essential freedoms, and > regardless of any other consideration repugnant. Really? I guess I haven't been paying attention. I went back and looked through Brin-L, but I couldn't find Denton's statements that you refer to above. > You have repeatedly and viciously accused GD of poor reading > comprehension. If you want to declare, accuse or insinuate that GD > advocated raising taxes, let alone advocated simply taxing the rich > as a systematic solution to the fiscal imbalance, please produce a > relevant passage. See above. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
