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Article #504Re: National Sales Tax - An Alternative?
From: Edward N. Kurmudgeon
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:00
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Quentin Lewis (bigqueue@tiac.com) wrote: : But you HAVE NO CHOICE! With a sales tax, you can be a little : discriminating about how much tax you give them, and how much you save. It : would be a very good incentive to save. : You currently have very little insentive to save, and when you do, the : returns (and the already taxed income) are then taxed. You might as well : spend it and enjoy it now. First, I have never refrained from buying anything just because I didn't want to pay the sales tax. Second, while the idea that the return on my savings is taxed is not palatable, I have never spent any money just because investing it would result in me paying tax. All in all, I don't think I need to change these habits. Are people here different?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104eff,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10dda6,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dda6,public X-Google-Thread: 105ecf,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105ecf,public X-Google-Thread: fa7f5,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa7f5,public X-Google-Thread: 104158,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104158,public X-Google-Thread: 105dfd,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105dfd,public X-Google-Thread: 10d662,fe496bb546a1da4c X-Google-Attributes: gid10d662,public X-Google-Thread: ffe14,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gidffe14,public From: edwardk@aimnet.com (Edward N. Kurmudgeon) Subject: Re: National Sales Tax - An Alternative? Date: 1995/12/10 Message-ID: <4ae7d9$9rm@aimnet.aimnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 121558503 references: <490s4o$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$3hf@aimnet.aimnet.com> <4ab403$i3a@sundog.tiac.net> followup-to: 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 organization: Aimnet Information Services 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