Ted Rall - Thursday July 20, 2000 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Rep. Nate Morris (R-WA) stunned the nation this week by proposing a tax cut for just one person. Bill Gates has been unfairly penalized... no poor person has ever had to pay millions of dollars in taxes simply because of their success. It's time to lift the burden! A few politicians oppose the tax cut, but are quickly shut down. What about other rich people? Doesn't Madonna deserve a $17 million cut for the joy she's brought to dozens of Americans? This isn't about your parochial special interests - it's about Bill! Ordinary citizens, thinking only of their self-interest, strongly support the Gates relief bill. Any one of us - me, for example - could die and be reincarnated as Bill Gates. If that happens, I'll need that tax cut! That is so true. So...what does Bill Gates think? What do you mean, it isn't enough? We had to double taxes on teen workers to pay for your windfall! Hey! Don't succumb to class envy!

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