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The flat-tax vs. sales tax issue is one of the least debated but most
important to every American, whether they pay a penny in tax or not.
The fountainheads of knowledge about the two alternatives clearly are:
U.S. Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX) 202-225-7772; U.S. Rep. Bill Archer (R-TX)
202-225-2571; and Americans for Tax Reform, 202-331-0551, headed by
Grover Norquist, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's legislative tax
advisor.

edwardk@aimnet.aimnet.com (Edward N. Kurmudgeon) wrote:

>LQuest (liberty@airmail.net) wrote:

>: A Marxist influenced tax system is primarily characterized by:

>: 1. No one can earn or own anything of significant value without having to
>: "register" it in some form with the drooling bureaucrats who did nothing to
>: earn it.

>: 2. The more wealth one creates the more s/he is punished via a "progressive"
>: tax collection scheme.

>Can you point to any Marxist source of literature that discuss these ideas?

>: I assert sir that I may know at at least as much about the various "isms" as
>: you and certainly more than the typical college graduate our "school" turn out
>: today.  for the last 35 years, I've been out here in the real world creating
>: wealth (and watching the looters steal it as fast as I create it). The history
>: of the human struggle for economic liberty has been an avid interest for me
>: most of my life. 

>Well, I salute your apparent willingness to learn about other "isms" before
>passing judgment on them.  Only a fool argues against something he has no
>basis to refute.  As to creating wealth, I haven't creating much wealth.
>I just manage to make a living.  In fact, a living many would consider a
>damn good living.  I have worked for the last 15 years.  Not quite 35 years.
>But I really work very hard though.  I work 12 hours days a lot.  Sometimes
>around the clock, if I have a deadline.

>: I have to wonder -- given your apparent ideology, have YOU ever had to sign
>: the FRONT of someone else's paycheck?

>Well, no, our accountant does that.  Actually our accountant used to do that.
>ADP does that for us now, we have become a business in which outsourcing 
>payroll makes more sense.  But what's your point?  That if I count my and
>my partners' money, I won't think the way I think?  A few of my partners
>don't agree me, but a few do.


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