From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 11:07:50 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>Damien B. writes
>
>
>
>>Lee Corbin re-wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>The data in the quote reads
>>> Percentage of
>>> Top Percent All Taxes Paid
>>>
>>> 1% 37%
>>> 5% 56%
>>> 10% 67%
>>> 50% 96%
>>>
>>>
>>By a strange coincidence, these figures are exactly the same for the
>>proportion of brain surgeons working in the USA!
>>
>> Percentage of
>>Top Percent IQ Brain Surgeons
>>
>>
>>> 1% 37%
>>> 5% 56%
>>> 10% 67%
>>> 50% 96%
>>>
>>>
>>It's just so unfair to the clever, who get no rest at all, that the
>>less intelligent half of the population should sit around on their
>>duffs drinking beer and cleaning out restrooms and other idleness
>>when they could be doing their share of the brain surgery!
>>
>>
>
>To most of the people on this list, like you, there is indeed a
>natural elite of the smart. I have no objection to this perception,
>and even share it. But that's not the elite that Michael Dickey
>was writing about, nor I above.
>
>The "elite" that pays all the tax is mainly that segment of the
>population who engage in the greatest amount of free economic
>transactions with others, and this can include porn artists,
>marijuana growers, and even insurance salesmen. Many of these
>...
>Lee
>
This "elite" includes successful con-men of every description,
successful mobsters, successful bank-robbers, etc. Perhaps we shouldn't
be too quick to equate an increase in this number with an increase in
ANY social good. It can be, but there's sure no isomorphism.
-- -- Charles Hixson Gnu software that is free, The best is yet to be.
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