Weird Stats

In an NPR interview (Robert Seigel and Roberton Williams), Williams discussed who pays federal income taxes. About 47% pay no federal income tax: the poor, people with many children and the elderly. The rich pay aout 24% of the total income tax. Those making more than $100,000 a year pay 56% of the income tax total. By some oversight, we still have a moderately progressive federal income tax.

HARPER'S reports another poll that shows 59% of Americans support allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, while 70% support allowing gay men and lesbians to serve. Let's see--if you subtract 59 from 70 you get 11%, the figure for those without brain stems participating in a typical poll

----Gary Goss