<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">There are plenty of examples of contemporary political rhetoric which ignores this distinction between what we earn and what we own.  Once we own, it is forever out of reach of the Fed (but not state governments.)<span class=""><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">spike</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">Forever meaning until they decide to change the laws.  I seem to recall that the estate tax, essentially death tax, was eliminated.  Am I correct?  For myself, I see no other road to bringing down debt than to raise taxes - a lot. Or we could learn to speak Mandarin so we'll be OK when the Chinese call in the debts.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"> One thing I do like about the Repubs - don't like spending, except for the Pentagon.  But won't raise taxes even though Saint Reagan did.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">bill w</span></div><span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:21 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, May 4, 2016  spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>​</div> that meme is the longest-standing typo in history.  It should have read “The lack of money is the root of all evil.”<p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></span><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​That would certainly make more sense, I think the presents of money is always better than its </font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">absence; </font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:large"> but I wouldn't go as far as Donald Trump who said "</font><i style="font-size:large">The point is, you can never be too greedy</i><span style="font-size:large">".</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:large"> John K Clark</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:large"> </span></div><div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>
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