From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:57:08 +0800
To: frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
Subject: Re: Government Denial of Service Attacks
In-Reply-To: <3.0b19.32.19961008154059.00a26358@panix.com>
Message-ID: <199610082333.JAA27903@suburbia.net>
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> "During Fiscal 1996, the Government of the United States collected more
> taxes from the American people than any government had ever collected
> before in the history of mankind.  During Fiscal 1997, the Government of
> the United States plans to collect more taxes from the American people than
> any government has ever collected before in the history of mankind.  And
> still it's not enough."      
> 

I will not coment on the correctness of the U.S government's funding
allocations, however the above statement is clearly designed to be
deceptive. Given the GDP of the U.S as a whole during fiscal 1996 was
greater than that of any other country at any other time, including the
U.S in previous years (the U.S like most other countries has postive
growth), of course the absolute value of taxes collected will be larger.

-- 
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely  exercised for the good of its victims  
 may be the most  oppressive.  It may be better to live under  robber barons  
 than  under  omnipotent  moral busybodies,  The robber baron's  cruelty may  
 sometimes sleep,  his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who  
 torment us for own good  will torment us  without end,  for they do so with 
 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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