[lit-ideas] Re: Big Pharma's competition

  • From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 07:50:36 -0500

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> A.A.   Big Government is bigger since Bush.  Government shrank under
> Clinton, as did the deficit.  The deficit grew enormously, if not
> astronomically, from surplus to extreme debt.  What relic are you  
> talking
> about?

It is definitely bigger under Bush, a big-government conservative.   
I'm talking about the post-New Deal explosion in federal spending.

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> A.A. What in your opinion is a free society?  Free to do what?

I don't understand your question.  America, for most of its history,  
has been a free society.

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> A.A.  How would society be improved without Social Security?

Society is improved anytime people are allowed to keep their own  
money to do with as they see fit.  Unless you are James Michener who  
believes that governments he's lived under have distributed his money  
far better than he could.

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> A.A. Wow, do you have your facts screwed up. The ultra rich pay no  
> taxes or
> next to no taxes at all, let alone 80%.  The middle class shoulders  
> the
> entire tax burden of this country.  Kindly supply sources for your  
> 20/80
> figures.

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5746/Report.pdf

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> A.A.   Given how filled your post is with misinformation, you are  
> clearly
> from the factually challenged masses.  Are you religious too?

What misinformation?

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> A.A. What flavor is throwing people into the street?

Butterscotch.  Who is being thrown into the street?

Brian
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