-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Charles Murray <=-
 SB> experience. But, if I recall my history correctly, a lot of those taxes
 SB> got created as a way to fund the programs that kept a lot of other
 SB> people alive during the Great Depression.  I have talked with people
 SB> who were of voting age during the thirties.  Heck, I have elderly
 SB> friends who were in their thirties during part of the thirties and
 SB> remember them quite well.  They inform me that not only did those
 SB> programs created from the taxes help keep people alive, but the
 SB> majority of the population strongly supported the taxes, and the
 SB> president (FDR, I'm sure you recall) who created the taxes and the
 SB> programs they made possible.
 Unfortunately, what the people _didn't_ know (or maybe they just didn't 
are)
 what havoc and devastation many of the "New Deal" programs would wreak on 
he
 environment. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have to live with Grand Coulee
 Dam and its hundreds of clones everyday.
 
 Jim 
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