Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread William Hugh Tunstall
-Caveat Lector- Mr. Sowell is engaged in a rather clever campaign of disinformation. Please read "America: What Went Wrong" by Barlett and Steele. Sowell's points are refuted by the statistical evidence compiled by these two Philadelphia Inquirer researchers. Their study is based on US

Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread Howard R. Davis III
ciety is worse off than they were in the halycon days of Jimmy Carter". This may or may not be true, but I could find no reference to that question in the whole of Mr. Sowell's article. Howard Davis -- From: William Hugh Tunstall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CT

Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Income, taxes and demagoguery by Thomas Sowell William Hugh Tunstall Mr. Sowell is engaged in a rather clever campaign of disinformation. snip information about some book Sorry. The facts do not support Sowell's position. MJ: The 'facts' in the book you

Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread William Hugh Tunstall
f than they were in the halycon days of Jimmy Carter". This may or may not be true, but I could find no reference to that question in the whole of Mr. Sowell's article. Howard Davis -- From: William Hugh Tunstall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CTRL] Income

Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread William Hugh Tunstall
-Caveat Lector- Nice try, Mr. Johnson, but you're in error. Bartlett and Steele use figures from the OMB, the IRS and the US Census Bureau... not the House Ways and Means Committee and NOT the Tax Foundation! But if you will read my response to Mr. Howard Davis III, I am on record for the

Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- William Hugh Tunstall wrote: Nice try, Mr. Johnson, but you're in error. Bartlett and Steele use figures from the OMB, the IRS and the US Census Bureau... not the House Ways and Means Committee and NOT the Tax Foundation! MJ: So Bartlett Steele (fallacy of

Re: [CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-09 Thread William Hugh Tunstall
-Caveat Lector- I'm not using an "appeal to authority." Bartlett and Steele are only one source. There are others. But I don't think it's really a matter of my sources versus yours. I think the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and even the Wall Street Journal have had articles featuring what I

[CTRL] Income, taxes and demagoguery

1999-06-07 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Income, taxes and demagoguery by Thomas Sowell WHEN YOU HEAR POLITICIANS and intellectuals talking -- often very loudly -- about "the rich," do you ever wonder who they are talking about and how much money those "rich" people make? And do you ever wonder why those who are