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of the economy, the number of shares - traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange in-* • 1990 was about 35 billion shares. In 1999, it was about 280 billion.
What does this have to do with ' George Bush's tax plan I would argue ‘ ;; that it is unnecessary and unwise. Supply side theory is supposed to be ■ helpful to a sagging economy. As we saw -J, in the eighties it didn't work.
In any case, there's nothing sagging . about our economy in the year 2000. The only apparent sag consists of the / middle and lower income segments of the population who are unable to bene-, fit from the new economy. These people are precisely the people that will reap the benefits of the targeted tax cuts proposed by A1 Gore. Electing Al Gore ' will help the people who need it the ■ -« most and leave enough of the surplus to'pay down the Reagan debt.
Andy Platt1
Woodville
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