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|    Chris Ahlstrom to chrisv    |
|    Re: The Top 1% Pay Half Of All Taxes    |
|    21 Jun 24 07:04:03    |
      XPost: alt.computer.workshop, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, comp.os.linux.advocacy       From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us              chrisv wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:              > Tyrone wrote:       >       >>I have no gripe against any class.       >       > Anyone who gets off their ass and goes to work every day gets my       > respect.       >       >>I used to be poor, but then I grew up and got a real job.       >       > Me too. I've lived in a trailor house. I've been homeless. I got my       > shit together in my early 20's, however.              I grew up poor in rural Illinois. But my (divorced) father would treat us       to (compensatory?) zoo and museum visits, science-fiction paperbacks,       telescopes, microscopes... We even managed to get a set of Worldbook       Encyclopedia.              And look at me now! Old, pudgy, retired, and tinkering endlessly on laptops.              The Circle of Life! :-D              --       And when I die, don't bury me at all.       Just pickle my bones in alcohol.        -- R.A. Lafferty              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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