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   Message 43,875 of 44,666   
   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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