Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> in article cb015a$qkh$4@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/19/04 9:25 AM:

>> Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> in article cauqj9$qvh$3@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/18/04 10:27 PM:
>> 
>>>> Sorry, I have REPEATEDLY commented on that. I simply point out that
>>>> Gates derives MUCH MORE from the government.
>> 
>>> More than approaching infinity? WOW.
>> 
>> At most, they could get 100%. At most.
>> 
>>> Clearly you don't understand such simple concepts as ratios and proportions.
>> 
>> You mean, like the concept of "100%"?

> I don't think you understand math very well. When the poor get benefits in

I understand perfectly; the poor cannot, BY DEFINITION, receive and
infinite benefit, else they would no longer be poor.

> excess of what they pay in taxes, their benefits are MORE than 100% of
> taxes.

Even if that is so, it is not infinite. Perhaps you meant to be clever,
but it just came out stupid.

Mike