Back in college I had a wonderfull economics teacher, Mrs. Snellings... Yeah, she had the book that thr college had told her that she would have to use but she would occasionally go into these very serious rant/monolugues about economic theory that was not in the book and not on the tests...

One day the issue of taxes came up and she spent the next half an hour explaining how since WW II that over all taxes hadn't deviated more than 1%... Huh???... Yeah, this woman was way beyonf her time... She rattled off figures from her head and what it came down to is that the tax rate had remained at 54% during all those years... Yeah, this included taxes that are hidden in products we buy, it included sales taxes, corporate taxes and all the hidden taxes that folks have no clue that they pay...

Now that is a very intersting concept... Hey, I am not an economist though (haha) I once once certified to teach it at the high school level, but I think there is some merit to Dr. Snellings observations...

So, that being the case, if we do need 54% (okay, it might have been 53%, I can't remember the exact percnetage other thasn it was on the plus side of 50%) to run our various governemnts (local, sate, federal) then if we don't tax at that level then how do these levels of governemnt do what we all (or most of us) expect of governemnt???

I think this is an appropriate question to ask...

I mean, do we run Sicial Security thru the shreader??? Do we board up the Pentagon??? Do we lay off half our firemen??? Or policemen???

I think what we have seen since my college days is an attempt to chip off a couple three percentage points from that number that Dr, Snellings spoke of back in the 60's and I'd just point to where it has brought us...

I donno???

I do know that I wish Dr. Snellings were here to post to this thread...

B~