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Monday February 26, 2001
"Income taxation has been shifting so that a relatively small number of people at the very top pay for much of goverment, while middle-class benefits, like old-age pensions, health care, and public schooling, have become more generous. Soon, unless something is done, most people will have no reason not to keep voting for more government, because they won't be paying for it." Jim DeMint , The New Yorker, February 19, 2001, cited by Nicholas Lemann
you can sometimes see it when you take off and land
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returning We breakfast at relentlessly modern Brassiere on 53rd between Park and Lex. We meet with a friend who is a financial advisor. We worked together many years ago. None of us has changed much. We walk with her to her building which is next to Grand Central station. Grand Central is a grand space these days. Our friend has an easy commute, walking to her train in the burbs and getting off here, virtually in her building. We wander around it a bit and cab back for the awful duty of packing up. Our room is so small that there isn't room for both of us and packing. FFP goes off and reads and then we both read e-mail. My work e-mail starts to bring me back from vacation. Sigh. We can't get the hotel to extend checkout past 1PM so we go on and check out and create a gypsy encampment in their library wih our luggage. I plug in my laptop and phone. (I'm typing up all these journal pages while we wait for time to go to the airport.) I hate flying. But this isn't especially bad. The flight is direct, stopping in Houston, so we don't have to change. The Dimetapp just about controls the pressure change in my ears. We read and work puzzles and finally are at the Autin airport. We get a cab on which nothing (meter, shocks, brakes) seem to work but we get home safely.
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