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Gene Wolfe's Politics

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 26 Mar 2009, 19:42 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:42:21 -0700
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe's Politics
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:25 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> A good practical place to start.
>
> You can only make a new tax if you remove two others: you can only raise a
> tax if you reduce other taxes by twice the amount.

This is a formula for bankruptcy.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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