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Article #471Re: National Sales Tax - An Alternative?
From: Edward N. Kurmudgeon
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:00
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Jim Miller Jr. (jmillerjr@lsfcu.org) wrote: : Geez, you bigot! This is nothing but rich bashing by a jealous person. The : government does not exist to protect property, it exists to protect freedom. : While one of the freedoms we enjoy as Americans is to collect and build : wealth, it is not primary. Bill Gates would suffer exactly the same loss of : freedom as any homeless family were the US Government to fall to an : agressive foreign agent. But not the same loss of property you will agree, won't you? So, let just say we charge the amount that the poorest person in this country can afford to protect his freedom, and charge everybody else the same amount to protect their freedom, as they would each suffer the same loss. That's fair, won't you say? Ok, incidentally, we also protect everyone's property. Shouldn't we charge something for doing that? And, property is accumulated over time, so shouldn't we charge some additional amount each year to protect the increase in his property that has become an additional burden on our defense establishment for protection? Isn't that fair? That's progressive income tax.
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