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   Snidely to All   
   Re: PING: Shawn W. and/or David F., if t   
   27 Nov 21 15:33:15   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Remember when Roger House bragged outrageously?  That was Saturday:   
   > I thought of a different way of asking my old "tax breaks" question.   
   >   
   > How come "they", (the government?), SEEM TO never give tax breaks to the   
   > kind/type of people who could/would ACTUALLY benefit from them?  Like   
   > restaurant dishwashers, trash collectors, janitors, etc.  In other words, to   
   > use a term, the type of people that MIGHT be living paycheck to paycheck.  To   
   > use another term, "the working poor" as it's said.  Or, in other words, why   
   > do they SEEM TO give tax breaks only to the kind of people that, when it   
   > comes to how much money they have/make, don't NEED them?   
      
   The working poor don't pay their lobbyists enough.   
      
   > One more thing, in a similar vein.  As near as I can tell, so-called "trickle   
   > down" economics, also known as Reaganomics, does NOT work, or trickle down.   
   > In other words, AFAIK, and I COULD be wrong, using my example from above, the   
   > working poor NEVER see any, (direct to?), benefit to their financial   
   > situation from trickle down economics.   
      
   The rich don't hire enough deck hands for their yachts.  There is some   
   benefit to welders, though.   
      
   /dps   
      
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