Re: "More Americans living in poverty now than there were in 1965...Economic realities on Main Street"

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Foxtrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Jas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >Clinton raised taxes a bit in the 90s with a resulting boom (albeit one with
> >a false bubble). 
> 
> WHAT?? Raising taxes leads to economic booms?? So if 
> we raised taxes to 100%, we'd all be wildly prosperous, right? 

Yeah, right wingers claimed Clinton's raising taxes on the wealthy would 
bring a recession; the opposite happened, of course.  

> >Also, remember:
> >There are more Americans living in poverty now than there were in 1965. Over
> >thirteen million of them are children. (The US has the worst child poverty
> >rate of all the world's industrialized countries.) Last year alone, another
> >1.7 million Americans slipped below the poverty line, bringing the total to
> >34.6 million, one in eight of the population, and up from 31.6 million in
> >2000. (See "Economic Fault Lines in America's States," AFL-CIO report).
> 
> Since we're worse off than we were before, will you liberals 
> admit that the trillions of dollars we spend on handouts for 
> the poor are a waste of money? 

And you're calling other people "stupid"?  Do your parents know you're 
using their computer?

Craig