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One more thing: "Overall, these results indicate that upward mobility remains an attainable goal for the majority of working age individuals. The presence of mobility implies that yearly measures of earnings inequality likely overstate the permanent earnings differences between individuals." link: I posted this a few weeks back PP

Source for what? If you mean link to the table, I sure did - in my second post to this thread. How can you be so wrong so often? Here it is again: Table Link PP

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I'll take that position as well

me!

I know you fall off high enough to swing like mad but not hit the ground!

Killa Priest you fool!

Oh, but I disagree. You must look at this logically, and apply reason. How else can you analyze this? Use whatever word you want, 'fairness', 'equity', whatever. The bottom line point I was making is that simply because someone has created more wealth for himself than others, doesn't automatically mean that the government is entitled to more of it on a percentage basis. I agree with the last sentence! Back to economies in general. Ok let's say we have two countries and in each country we have a worker. Each worker makes $1/per year. In the first country economic growth is encouraged and consequently the worker there has a real income growth rate of 3.5%/annum in the other country the growth rate is 1% less per year. After 40 years the worker in the second country will be making only 67% of what the worker in the first makes. Small differentials in growth rates have huge impacts on real wealth over time! PP

Ok Here’s the scoop. My first link (which Jim read!) clearly stated that average EU productivity/hr was at one point up to 87% of the US. The more recent link breaks out productivity by country. Note: three countries have higher per hr productivity rates - France, Belgium and Netherlands. Belgium has a population of approximately 10 million. NYC has about 8million. Are comparisons of small countries such as Belgium and Netherlands to the entire US appropriate? Clearly not. France is better but still much smaller than the US. The current discussion regarding “fairness” is interesting but misses a major point. Would a tax scheme seen as “fair” by the vast majority of citizens be preferred over a grossly unfair tax scheme where everyone is materially better off? My links have real points to make regarding economic growth rates and flexibility. Important points not addressed by a discussion of fairness. Of course to be fair in a discussion of fairness you don’t need to rely on facts. PP

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Point one: Jim's claim that the link I posted doesn't address prod/hr is false. Point two: Jim is now changing his facts. See this for EU productivity per hour. You can come to your own conclusion on how misleading Jim’s claims are when they are true and how wrong they are when they are false. PP

My link expressly addresses productivity per hour . You originally claimed that some EU nations had productivity per hour higher than the US. Now you seem to be suggesting that the EU on average has a higher productivity per hour. Which is it? PP

Link Check this out: The Swiss economy has faced hard times in the past few years. One canton, Schaffhausen, is doing something about it by changing its tax law to attract wealthy people. Beginning in January 2004, Schaffhausen will replace its system of increasing marginal tax rates on income with a system of degressive marginal rates. The cantonal tax rate will be set at just under 8 percent for income of SFr 100,000. It will rise to a peak of 11.5 percent for income between SFr 600,000 and SFr 800,000. Thereafter, the marginal rate declines with each incremental chunk of income: 10 percent at SFr 1,300,000; 8 percent at SFr 3,000,000; and just over 6 percent for income more than SFr 10,000,000. This is a true incentive-based tax system: the larger one's income, the lower one's marginal rate Jim - Before you address this issue why don't you go back to the productivity thread and read the link I posted there. You might learn something if you free your mind from the constraints of your rigid worldview. PP

Adjusted gross income floors on top 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50% are as follows: $292,913 $127,904 $92,754 $56,085 $28,528. PP

EU Productivity

You guys are crazy skinny girls? Just say no. Nothing is groovier than a tummy to hold while you're spooning! Oh ya and bigs buts go better with big legs! PP

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WHat about the weight gain associated with C. It seems that a light guy such as yourself might not be as adversely impacted by this as a fat man like me. Any thoughts?

Katana!

Ok Rumr here is a bit of my “master plan” Now until 2004 - loose weight and work on one arm. November to 2004 - strengthen fingers and tendons 2004 - climbing gym a lot and work campusing into the mix! June 2004 – WORLD DOMINATION! PP

Are you crazy??!?!?! Snakes freak me out. I can't even stand the aproach to Careno crag, so I am pretty much stuck climbing on the westside. Just glad I don't climb in Australia. PP

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Two Words: John Woo

"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood. And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin." - actor, Ed Asner, responding to the question, "If you had the chance to play the biographical story of a historical figure you respected most over your lifetime, who would it be?" Link PP