On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:03:51 -0700, Hawke
wrote:

On 7/16/2012 12:17 PM, wrote:
On Jul 16, 2:00 pm, Hawke wrote:


If you think that everything that congress does turns out exactly the
way they wanted it to you're living in a dreamland. In reality things
turn out the opposite of what they intended all the time.

Hawke

But the tax code is still exactly what Congress wanted. They wrote
it , reviewed it , and voted it into law. So it is exactly what they
wanted.

Dan



No, that's wrong. In the first place what "passed" is not a measure of
what congress wanted. It's a measure of who was in power and who got
their way at the time. When a law is passed it means some people wanted
it that way. Others did not want it. So what passes is what can get
passed not what congress wants.

Secondly, what is passed doesn't always work as intended. So even if a
tax law is exactly as the current majority wanted it that does not mean
it has the effect they wanted it to have. In fact, it may operate the
exact opposite of how they wanted it to. So to think that the tax laws
at any time are exactly as the current congress wants them is simply not
true. I understand you have an opinion the opposite of that. You're
entitled to that and you are entitled to be wrong. But I am entitled to
let you know your opinion is not true.

Hawke


You are playing with words. Again.

But if, as you seem to contend, the tax law is not what congress wants
then how did it get passed by a majority vote?

You spend 13 lines of typing to explain how the democratic system
works - the decision the majority wants.

Now, as to whether the decision worked as expected; that is rather an
evaluation of how much the drafters of the law understood about the
subject.
Cheers,
John B.