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- From: lachman@netcom.com (Hans Lachman)
- Subject: Re: Just a Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.004147.18753@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom
- References: <1993Jan5.174930.1348@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com> <1993Jan5.212124.21005@erenj.com> <1993Jan5.212328.21076@erenj.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:41:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.212328.21076@erenj.com> srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.212124.21005@erenj.com>, srfergu@rufus.erenj.com (Scott Ferguson) writes:
- >
- >|> I suggest we go to all consumption tax, and no income tax.
- >
- >Of course, in self-rebuttal, consumption tax implies a flat rate, so the
- >poor pay the same as the rich. Comments, anyone?
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- Easy: "Necessity" items will have low or no tax. (This idea is already
- in practice. Groceries, for example, are typically exempt from sales
- taxes.)
-
- Hans Lachman
- lachman@netcom.com
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