Posted on 01/31/2005 7:12:16 AM PST by bmweezer
referring to Karl Marx >He said "From each according to his abibities to each according to his needs." My ---, Doll. Why do you want to cling to a failed system?<
You must have responded to someone else's post, Badray. I never posted anything like that. You'll never find anyone more anti-Communistic than I am.
(Twisted Smiley.)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
Well, Gabz (whom I consider a FReeper FRiend) is on this thread, she's learning about NRST for the first time, she's been asking intelligent questions and YOU, dear fellow, have been giving clear, intelligent answers to many posts. I've enjoyed reading them--nice exposition. I admire that. Gabz has benefitted as have all readers of this initially unpromising thread.
On the internet, what can you love except someone's mind, as revealed by their posts? Hence, a proper "love" from a FReeper hillbilly granny. Not much, but it's the best I've got. ;-D
You just have to remember to return things to the correct library! This morning I tried to check out videos at a Union County branch with my Mecklenburg County card.
:)
There's a Starbucks in GAP???? YUCK....that totally desicrates that magnificent structure.
I never used the main branch in mid-town until AFTER I left Brooklyn College and was going to technical school in mid-town.
I don't care to relate the date of the last time I was on the BC campus, so can't comment upon any recent changes there.
For someone who's constantly harping about published studies, I assume you have something handy that shows that evasion will be higher under a sales tax than it is under an income tax?How about common sense? Do I really have to provide papers that say sales tax evasion will be higher at ~36% (state + fed) than at 6%?
I'm not sure what you mean by the FairTax "base". Do you mean the companies which would have to collect the FairTax from it's customers?The amount of sales and services that would be taxed under the FairTax.
We FReepers know how to keep a secret.
:0)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I think that would be a "good idea/Bad idea" moment.
No, what you need to provide is any sort of resource that says that evasion will be higher under the sales tax than under the income tax. Any tax system has people who evade it -- if you want to claim that the NRST underestimates the impact of evasion, you need to show that net evasion will increase.
Oh, I see what happened. In my post I quoted a paragraph from the article in replying to 92. You thought those were my words. It can happen to anyone.
Beehive. Behoove. Behave.
and I "love" you both........in the internet sense of the word!!!!
This has been very informative and I will pick it up later...but right now I've got to go start my car to warm it up so that when the school bus deposits my daughter we can head for the store (i can also sit in the warm car waiting for the bus)
Later gators!!!!
*chuckle*
Dunno, actually.
>> Eliminating all federal withholdings from the paycheck puts more money in the bank each payday. Less money going to the government out of my paycheck means increased money for me.
It is then up to me to decide how to spend it.
Under the current system I must control my spending because I DON'T control the taxes. Under this proposal I still control my spending but by doing so I DO control the taxes.<<
Precicely why I like the concept!
It aint gonna happen though - unless it morphs into something just as unfair as the one we have.
I would be all for a flat income tax. And by flat, I mean FLAT! Rich or poor, it doesn't matter.
And the only way I would support a federal sales tax is if the government was no longer concerned with how much money I earn - which will never happen.
Is this the blindfold round?
Sounds scary but interesting.
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