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Old September 24th 06, 06:49 AM posted to rec.sport.pro-wrestling,sci.space.policy,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.station,sci.space.history
Scott Hedrick
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Frank Glover wrote:


That's what taxes are for...

But beyond a certain point, you destroy any reason to *become* rich.




When being rich is outlawed, only outlaws will be rich. :-)


That's why tax cuts improve government revenue- up to a certain point. If
tax cuts were the primary answer, then it should be possible to raise
government income to infinity with a tax rate of zero. The converse, of
course, is that tax increases will eventually result in a decrease in
revenue, as folks stop doing the things to generate revenue, and get better
at hiding it.


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Old September 30th 06, 12:37 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.station,sci.space.history
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PS wrote:

And it is not like it is such a good thing either. Humans are like a devolved species.



We're just monkeys who lost our tails growing up from little snails,
after all. ;-)

Pat
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Old September 30th 06, 03:54 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Christopher
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:37:49 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:



PS wrote:

And it is not like it is such a good thing either. Humans are like a devolved species.



We're just monkeys


Apes, and we never had a tail.

who lost our tails growing up from little snails,
after all. ;-)

Pat

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Old October 3rd 06, 04:42 AM posted to sci.space.policy
pete[_1_]
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on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:54:37 GMT, Christopher sez:
` On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 06:37:49 -0500, Pat Flannery
` wrote:

`
` PS wrote:
`
` And it is not like it is such a good thing either. Humans are
` like a devolved species.
`
`
` We're just monkeys

` Apes, and we never had a tail.

Never? That's a good trick, considering the first tetrapod had a tail,
and damn near every one since, except a rare few including us...
Heck, I would guess our ancestors first acquired tails somewhere
around the time they became chordates, 600Mya, and didn't lose them
until perhaps 40Mya.

` who lost our tails growing up from little snails,
` after all. ;-)
`

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Old June 2nd 07, 06:49 PM posted to rec.sport.pro-wrestling,sci.space.policy,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.station,sci.space.history
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-- wrote:

When it becomes available and reasonably priced do you plan on
becoming a Space Tourist?


That Virgin Galactic crap? Where you don't even get into orbit? Where
you
are only weightless for five minutes? I'd pay $50 for that if it were at
a theme park... where it belongs.


Try scuba diving, it's around $50 and you get 45 minutes of weightlessness.
 




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