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Article #506Re: National Sales Tax - An Alternative?
From: Edward N. Kurmudgeon
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 00:00
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Ed Symanzik (zik@enoch.cl.msu.edu) wrote: : Bill Mechlenburg (mechlen@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : : 1. A national sales tax would have to be in the order of 30 to 40% on : : top of state and local sales tax to produce enough revenue to replace : : the present income tax. This high a tax would be a huge incentive for : : cheating and evasion requiring a bureaucratic army of auditors and : : enforcers. : Only 18% if there were no exceptions. Please explain that to me. The total retail sales in the United States in 1995 was 1.4 trillion dollars.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104eff,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10d662,fe496bb546a1da4c X-Google-Attributes: gid10d662,public X-Google-Thread: 105ecf,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105ecf,public X-Google-Thread: 104158,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid104158,public X-Google-Thread: 105dfd,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid105dfd,public X-Google-Thread: 10dda6,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dda6,public X-Google-Thread: fa7f5,8c62cfd13b101be6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa7f5,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: 1995/12/11 Message-ID: <4ahtcs$psu@aimnet.aimnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 121558477 references: <490s4o$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> <4ae7d9$9rm@aimnet.aimnet.com> <4aff7p$1o6@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4ah7vl$i0k@msunews.cl.msu.edu> 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