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   BYE BYE JOHNNY to Joe Fineman   
   Re: A Proper Socialist of the Old School   
   01 Oct 05 07:19:45   
   
   From: JONNY@ROBBIE.COM   
      
   "Joe Fineman"  wrote in message   
   news:umzltc49a.fsf@verizon.net...   
   > Somewhere in CEJL (it didn't make it into the index under "Taxation"),   
   > he describes some fiddle of his to avoid taxes during the war, and   
   > remarks that he would gladly die for England, but no-one is patriotic   
   > about taxes.   
      
   I didn't put it here to make some nasty point about Orwell. But it is an   
   amusing irony. As for your tax comments, all socialists have to accept that   
   tax is the central word and engine of their dream. In London, Mayor   
   Livingstone is confiscating large amounts opf ordinary people's money and   
   spending on consultants from his old loony left days to do 'gender studies   
   of women in the London economy' and to 'sell the Mayor to the public'.   
   Meanwhile, the hospitals are filthy and that's where the poor die.   
      
   So...   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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