in article camtk1$i38$1@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/15/04 10:29 PM:

> Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote:

[SNIP]

>> Please define what you think tax cuts should be proportionate to.
> 
> That wouldn't be a "definition", so much as an "opinion", now, would
> it?
> 
> Mike

Mike,

Your sentence gives the false impression that there is only one thing that
"proportionate to" can be defined as. That ignores the relative nature of
the word "proportionate." That word only has meaning by knowing what you are
using as the base line of the proportion.