Re: Yikes! Diesel $4.50/gallon

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 Bruce 
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> burned some brain cells writing:

> "trader4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <trader4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>Last time I checked, the top 5% of income earners are paying around
>>50% of the total federal income taxes paid.   So, the rich are paying
>>a huge amount of taxes, just not enough for socialists like you, who
>>would like to confiscate all wealth and turn it over to the govt so
>>they can decide how to piss it away.    The ash heap of history is
>>filled with countries where they've tried that with disasterous
>>results.
> 
> 
> Europe, with high taxes, thrives, with ever-increasing prosperity. The
> Euro is the most stable of the world's significant currencies.
> 
> Meanwhile, the USA, with low taxes,

Americans work into mid-May to pay taxes.  The US is NOT a low-tax
country, 
and in fact it is its high taxes that have decimated its manufacturing.