At 09:33 AM 10/9/96 +1000, Julian Assange wrote:

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.

I make the point only because this very important fact never occurs to anyone. Our rulers like to say that they can't make do with a cent less of the vast sums they collect from us and, in fact, all of them say that they will need more. Just pointing out that with all they have, they can probably stand to cut back a little. The Fortune 500 did. DCF