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To: kevkrom
Lemme get this straight... you are seriously suggesting that all of the following could even remotely happen:

Not exactly, but when Congress passed the 16th. Amendment in 1913, it was on the top .01% of the population. Do you think that anybody would have thought then, that a child is born in 1990 would have its footprint taken and it would receive a Social Security Number before it could suckle at its mothers breast?

Don't you get it! If you do not restrain government, by law, from doing harm, it will do harm. That means that any tax scheme will have to be backed up by a very comprehensive tax bill that limits the powers of government into your personal affairs for tax purposes.

175 posted on 11/19/2004 9:53:24 AM PST by elbucko ( Feral Republican)
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To: elbucko
But basically... and this is what I've been leading up to... what you are saying is that the government will go through all of the trouble to get rid of an income tax, only to them impose a requirement that each person spends a certain percentage of their income on the sales tax, keeping (and probably filing with the government) records that prove that they properly complied.

Wouldn't it just be simpler to stick with the current system, since that's almost exactly what that ridiculous scenario would be?

It's natural, and proper, to be wary of the government, and skeptical of anything that they're doing. But you're going past that point into paranoid fantasies about an all-powerful, all-seeing entity that is capable of passing draconian measures to accomplish what they could so with simple inertia, the latter of which is the natural state of governments everywhere.

179 posted on 11/19/2004 10:00:40 AM PST by kevkrom (Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too.)
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