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The Privatization of AMTRAK'S N E Corridor
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<p>[quote user="Dragoman"]</p> <p><strong>Bucyrus</strong> --</p> <p>And where did the "people who have it" get it? They/We got it from wages paid to us by our employers, or payments made to us by our clients, or government payments (Social Security, Unemployment, etc.), or interest/dividends/rents from investments, or etc, etc, etc. And where did our employers/clients/etc get it? All of it comes from somewhere/someone else. By your definition, nobody has any money (except for those very lucky few who are sitting on a gold or uranium mine)!</p> <p>The only meaningful definition, is that the person/entity making the decision and signing the check is the spender. Where and how they get their funds is a very different discussion.</p> <p>You and I don't generally decide where our tax monies go, so <strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">we</span></em></strong> are not spending it. We "spend" our money paying various taxes, and the various levels of government decide where and how to "spend" those taxes collected.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">We acquired our money from getting up, going to work each day, and creating goods and/or services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By my definition, nobody has any money until they create it by producing something of value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Although one can also be gifted money from someone else who got up and earned it. </span>I am not talking about cash or currency that is manufactured by the government and flows into society as a medium of exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is beside the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I would argue that when we pay taxes, we certainly are spending our money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that we are paying the tax without stipulating how it will be used does not change the fact that we are spending our money when we pay taxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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