<mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote:
> necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
>> <mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote in message
>> news:cb08oi$4i4$4@news.Stanford.EDU...
>>> I understand perfectly; the poor cannot, BY DEFINITION, receive and
>>> infinite benefit, else they would no longer be poor.
>> Good God. You don't even understand the difference between absolute values
>> and relative value
> 
> Uh, yes I do.
> 
> Fact is, you cannot receive an infinite benefit, no matter how
> fascetious the statement was intended to be.
> 
> Mike

No one said anyone received an infinite benefit. Instead, the statement was
that the RATIO of benefit to income taxes actually paid approached infinity.
The extreme poor pay no income taxes, instead they get a "refund." Dividing
the benefits received (included the "refund") by the taxes paid, one is
dividing a finite number by zero, thus the ratio approaches infinity.