in article cb08rn$4i4$5@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/19/04 11:36 AM:

> Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>> in article 3IMAc.3993$Yb1.3660@nwrddc02.gnilink.net, Kevin Wayne Williams at
>> kww.nihongo@verizon.nut wrote on 6/19/04 10:31 AM:
> 
>>> 
>>> Or didn't you bother to read all of your sources?
> 
>> Could it be that Mike didn't like that particular source because it is a
>> government source.
> 
> Um, he DID indicate that it was one of my sources, yes? Perhaps I am
> as prejudiced against my own references as I am against the rich?

Then why did you state it didn't have the data it had?
> 
>> One interesting graph is one the
>> http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/taxes/#Head-4.htm site, which shows a pie
>> chart of 1999 (Projected) Income Tax Burden that shows the lowest 20% have a
>> -2% tax burden.
> 
> Sorry, how does that refute the statement that the VERY richest got a
> disproportionate tax cut under Reagan?
> 
> Mike

There was a flattening of the tax rates, but the rich were still paying much
more than the benefits received and the lowest 20% made money on the deal.