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To: B-Chan
I've come around on this issue over the past several years. As a self-employed artist, it hurts me like hell to wait and wait for a client to pay, and then have to deduct 25% of that hard-earned, much-needed cash right off the top to feed into Uncle's gaping maw.

Yea, this way you could just wait and wait for a client to pay an additional 30% you'd have to send (off the top) "to feed into Uncle's gaping maw".

You say but wait I won't have income tax to pay...no you won't you'll have a new 30% sales tax to pay on some things you've never had to pay tax on before.

Even the article, claiming reduced prices by 22% says it comes out the same...so how could YOU reduce your prices, collect and remit a new tax, pay sales taxes yourself AND maintain your current lifestyle?

15 posted on 08/26/2004 11:34:11 PM PDT by lewislynn (Why do the same people who think "free trade" is the answer also want less foreign oil dependence?)
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To: lewislynn

The scavengers in the Federal Government will NEVER do with less money. It has to come from somewhere. The rich will buy goods elsewhere and skirt the law somehow; but small business will lose tax advantages. The income tax is ridiculous, unfair, and overly complicated, but I trust these fools implicitly to make it worse.


19 posted on 08/26/2004 11:42:44 PM PDT by garandgal
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To: lewislynn
...you'll have a new 30% sales tax to pay on some things you've never had to pay tax on before.

That's not right. THere already is existing taxes included in prices amounting to 22% inclusive or 28% "sales tax".

It's just that the included 22% (28% sales tax) has always been invisible. That's the only difference.

50 posted on 08/27/2004 7:52:49 AM PDT by Principled
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