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To: SAJ
It is perfectly honest in different circumstances, especially when you start with an initial price fall and raising it back up.

Irregardless, why do you like the current tax system so much?

33 posted on 01/14/2008 8:03:02 AM PST by In veno, veritas
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To: In veno, veritas
Regarding both posts 32 and 33:

1) The Federal Reserve have no control over tax policy, period. To mention them in a tax discussion is the most crimson of red herrings.

2) If you think the Fed are principally responsible for the current price instability, you've cleared failed Econ 101, probably several times. Markets are working properly just now, seeking their clearing levels, although we probably don't much like the rapidity with which they're doing so. The Fed are players in this game only to the extent that they expand the money supply faster than commodities can be produced.

Far greater villains in the instability are the Regress and Mr. Bush, for their meddling in mkts. Ethanol as a mass-mkt motor fuel (subsidised, of course)? What a joke. Dairy price compacts with which to buy votes (mostly in blue states, what a shock). Universal tagging of livestock. Changes in long-standing mining law. Increasing restrictions on energy production. Compared to these and other idiocies, the Fed's role is comparatively benign.

3) I should look up ''ceteris paribus'', eh? Quo usque tandem abutere, InVenoVeritas, patientia nostra?

4) 'Irregardless' is a substandard form. Perhaps you meant 'irrespective'.

5) BTW, the phrase is 'In vino, veritas', from Horace.

6) To assert that, if one does not like your pet scheme, one must therefore 'like' the current tax regime. This is defined in logic as a pure non sequitur (look it up). One can easily despise the current tax structure AND find your scheme worse still.

7) All in all, just about the type of bilge I've come to expect from 'fair' taxers.

52 posted on 01/14/2008 8:43:56 AM PST by SAJ
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