[Eagle Eye]

If they give a credit for safes, then they can give a credit for anything.

You like the idea because you it fits an interest. If you were a star-gazer, then you'd like a tax credit for a new telescope.

But the priciple question still remains: Should the tax code be used to shape social behavior or to raise money?

[muawiyah]

People get tax breaks all the time for buying telescopes and binoculars - provided their business buys them, it's a deductible expense. Now you try that outside of the framework of a business and you have a problem.

BTW, if you have a big problem with using the tax code to "mold behavior", take it up with your Congressman - not me. Whether I agreed with you or not, there's not a whole lot I could do about it, eh?!

At the moment I have this sucker Daschle on the line for a $150 tax credit to help the militia store their very own weapons safely.

It's the first decent thought he's had in about 20 years, so I don't want to scare him away.

[Taxman]

The tax code should be used to raise money for the legitimate funcions of government.

No dice, Dasshole. If I have a gun safe, it is not any of your or the government's business!

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
[Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]

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We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.