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Date: 6/11/01
Time: 2:59:28 PM
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You bring up some interesting points... I want to continue.
I agree that us folks in the middle class (lower middle, especially) pay too much of the burden of taxes. I believe that the 1% of Americans that are the billionaires and multi-millionaires are the ones that don't do their fair share. They have superior tax attorneys that enable them to loophole their way to continued, unrestrained massive, unspendable within their own families in thousands of years, wealth. Hey, what can I say? I heard Ralph Nader on the National Press Club last week, and I believe he's right. The richest people in the world have an obligation. How can anyone play if all the marbles are owned already?
Okay, second point. You mentioned that moms could just stay home before the tax situation got so unmanageable for families. Well, I see the government as reacting to the societal change. They saw that more women wanted to work outside the home, and they encouraged it because it meant more money!
I remember those simpler times when there was no such term as a "Working Mom." But things changed over time, and women began to develop a sense of being unfulfilled. Raising a family wasn't enough anymore. Geez, we knew that the ones who stayed home were working moms. They stayed with us, managed the home, cleaned, cooked, fed us, ran errands, helped with homework, paid attention to us, and nurtured our souls. Who's doing this today? Our culture today praises those who "Working Mom Magazine" calls the "Supermom." In other words, I don't think that those women would give up their status if the tax situation would change. Hey, if taxes were reduced, that would just mean more money for "things."
And I'm not against the liberation of women. I love Oprah and her empowering themes. I just think that those first years are the most important for a developing child. And there is no substitute for the strongest bond in nature - mother and child. I don't care what the republican governor of Massachusetts would have you believe. Hubby can't compete.