----- Original Message ----- From: Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 5:51 PM Subject: RE: The Age of Equality
> An alternative to the NIT --
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> http://maxspeak.org/tax1.html
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> This isn't another mealy-mouthed request for answers to right-wing
> arguments, but the following passages are interesting (and maybe the next
> big thing in Sullivania). Along with pleas that our big-hearted
immigration
> policy is the main contributor to inequality in America, we now have the
> insistence that, since Bill Gates is no more powerful today than Andrew
> Carnegie was during the Gilded Age, Paul Krugman is mostly wrong to fret
> over the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a lucky few. This
> comes from http://janegalt.net, one of the homes of KrugmanWatch on the
web.
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Actually this is a different way of putting an idea that the likes of
Limbaugh have been pushing for years, ie, our poor people are rich. This
is often mentioned in the same context of US blacks being way better off
than African blacks. These are long established mantras.