Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> 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?

Uh, no, I pointed out that the 2 references I have been predominately
using had no such tables.

I even repeated the references to make it clear which ones I was 
referring to.

Apparantly, you are not quick enough to catch even that.

>> Sorry, how does that refute the statement that the VERY richest got a
>> disproportionate tax cut under Reagan?

> There was a flattening of the tax rates, but the rich were still paying much

There was a shift off the richest 1%. 

> more than the benefits received and the lowest 20% made money on the deal.

That's your opinion.

If you cannot back up the "made money on the deal" with some references,
I'll submit you are, again, fabricating things.

Mike