[fightinJAG]

You might be interested in this post (#29) about the sales tax and tax evasion from another thread I’m on right now:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2792755/posts?page=29#29

[xzins]

Thanks Jag. You are right. Excellent article and in line with what I had read about sales tax rates, although approached from a different angle.

I believe years ago I read a history in college (very, very long, long ago :>) about the reforms of Solon in ancient Greece. Somewhere in the recesses of my memory, I remember the prof saying something to the effect that in an agricultural society, taking more than a fifth of a farmer’s production was a prescription for destruction of that farm, farmer, and society.

Just a curiosity that might or might not be applicable to today.