On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0600, DvB wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote: > > > "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in > > > > poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise > > > > pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget all > > > > gone ;-) > > > > > > > > > > <sarcasm> > > > Of course! If we spent that much, people with enough money to have > > > significant amounts of it in taxable stock accounts wouldn't be able to > > > keep it all! > > > </sarcasm> > > > > Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to earn > > it. > > > > You don't "work hard" for stock dividends. You just put your money in > stocks and they come all by themselves... although I guess I did word > that a little strangely.
Did the stocks buy themselves? Where'd that money come from? "Just put your money in stocks" is oversimplifying the issue a bit, don't you think? I find it deliciously ironic that so many people use the Internet to complain about the "evils" of capitalism and the United States of America. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multiculturalism is one society's tolerance of other societies' intolerance. -- Mark Steyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
