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- From: jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: NO! Re: flat taxes - yes!!!
- Keywords: flat tax
- Message-ID: <37700@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 18:32:04 GMT
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- In article <By1DH2.B2A@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >In article <dmeyers.722289433@mal-s2> dmeyers@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers) writes:
- >>In <37673@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jfh@reef.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- >>
- >>>There seems to be some confusion about what "flat" and "progressive" taxes
- >>>are. A flat tax is a tax where each individual pays the same percentage of his
- >>>income. A progressive tax is where the rich pay increasing percentages of
- >>>their income.
- >>
- >>>As I said before, I think the flat consumption tax is the fairest--each
- >>>individual pays the same base amount for a good the same price, yet the rich
- >>>will end up paying a higher dollar amount than the poor, unless they consume
- >>>the same amount or less of goods and services. This system also does not
- >>>tax savings, which is already taxed by our government's inflationary policies.
- >
- > If the government's policies are so inflationary then how come the
- > M2 dropped at the end of this summer?
- >
-
-
- I was speaking, not with regards to recent trends, but with regards to the
- overall trend of our benevolent all-knowing government to continuously debase
- our unit of currency. Check the CPI from 1800 to present--you will see a
- strange jump after 1913, the year that the Federal Reserve was installed.
- Coincidence? Also, when Nixon took us off the international gold standard,
- you will see an even larger jump, otherwise known as "the stagflation of
- the 70's."
-
- The overall policy of the Fed has been to continually increase the quantity
- of money (the original meaning of "inflation"), and this is a tax on all
- people's savings. I am quite sure that although the money supply has been
- reduced recently, this trend will not last. Hopefully I am wrong.
-
- A flat consumption tax is still, I think, the best system available, primarily
- because it does not tax *savings*. (Keynesians would hate this, I'm sure, since
- we all *know* that mass savings would send us straight into a *recession*!!--
- fools.)
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