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Article #490Re: National Sales Tax - An Alternative?
From: Bill Johnson
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00
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In <4a4o8m$3hf@aimnet.aimnet.com> edwardk@aimnet.com (Edward N. Kurmudgeon) writes: > >jim (jmason@iu.net) wrote: > >: If people can actually *see* what the government tax bite is, >: rather than having it painlessly spirited out of their paychecks, >: then it will be much easier to rally for a decrease in taxes >: (and the necessary shrinking of government which would >: accompany decreased tax revenues). > > >I don't understand what you mean. Every time I get my pay check, I >see exactly how much went to the government. Every time I file my tax >return, I see exactly how much the government took from me the past >year. Is it not the same for other people? > --------------------------- Not only that, but how often do you notice the add on sales tax on the end of a purchase? Probably not at all, unless it's huge, like sales tax on a car purchase. Talk about hidden out in the open (a sales tax)!! So, if a national sales tax were added on, but at a rate of 25%, you'd notice it in a hurry, and start to figure out how to avoid it (illegally, of course)! Remember, a national sales tax, if enacted, would still have to raise the same amount of revenue, so the rate would have to be extremely high to do so, especially if some things were exempted.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104eff,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 105dfd,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105dfd,public X-Google-Thread: 10d662,fe496bb546a1da4c X-Google-Attributes: gid10d662,public X-Google-Thread: fa7f5,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa7f5,public X-Google-Thread: 104158,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104158,public X-Google-Thread: 105ecf,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105ecf,public X-Google-Thread: ffe14,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gidffe14,public X-Google-Thread: 10dda6,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dda6,public From: bjbjbjbj@ix.netcom.com (Bill Johnson ) Subject: Re: National Sales Tax - An Alternative? Date: 1995/12/07 Message-ID: <4a6ude$ms5@cloner3.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 121145067 references: <490s4o$eku@nexus.coast.net> <499sg8$elm@villa.fc.net> <DMEYERS.95Nov30130038@panix.panix.com> <49n3ul$1urh@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <49n6pq$1tv@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> <49r10b$g41@aimnet.aimnet.com> <4a0e7l$4n7@cc.iu.net> <4a4o8m$3hf@aimnet.aimnet.com> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Thu Dec 07 6:40:46 AM PST 1995 newsgroups: mi.misc,alt.politics.usa.misc,alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,ca.politics,dc.politics,ne.politics,nj.politics,pa.politics,triangle.politics,misc.taxes,ny.politics