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Scripsit tjic@alta.openmarket.com (Travis Corcoran) :

 # >   Bill Gates often go out to pizza or hamburger and 
 # >  pay the same price as you or I.  I suppose it isn't unfair that the
 # >  difference between the taxes they pay and the taxes I pay under a 
 # >  consumption tax approach is not even proportional, on a logarithmic scale,
 # >  to our relative wealths?
 # 
 # Correct.  It is not unfair.
 # 
 # Bill Gates receives the same legitimate services from government that
 # your or I do: an army to protect us from external agressors, a police
 # force, a court system that resolves conflict over contracts, etc.
 # 
 # Come to think of it, it's not clear why Bill Gates should have to pay
 # any more taxes than I should.  The mere fact that he *CAN* do so does
 # not make it any more right that to it would be to draft big strong
 # guys into the military for 10 years, while letting smaller people not
 # serve...

The specious rationalization typically used is that, because Bill Gates has more
property that is "protected" by that army and court system, he therefore "uses"
more of their "services". 

It's absurd, of course, but some people believe it....

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Tiomoid M. of Angle                                             tangle@iadfw.net