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Re: Income tax repealed....maybe...

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From: epbrown
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
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cabernet@mindspring.com (Keith) wrote:

>acahalan@jupiter.cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan) wrote:
>
>
>>There are far fewer businesses than consumers.  Since the national
>>sales tax doen't require a form from every consumer, there will be
>>much less paper wasted and much less money wasted collecting taxes.
>
>Yes, half of the consumers are government employees.  The
>responsibility of tax is shifted from the PEOPLE and onto PRIVATE
>BUSINESS.  Lets really shaft private business.  I would have to become
>a government employee providing web hosting  for the politicians in
>their free time to surf while private business is calculating their
>NST.
	Actually, business is already doing the paper work, since we already have a
sales tax in most places.  They'd simply be tallying bigger numbers and send
the gov't bigger checks.  Withou an increase in sales, just numbers, they
wouldn't even have to hire more staff to do this.
	epbrown
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From: epbrown@enteract.com (epbrown)
Subject: Re: Income tax repealed....maybe...
Date: 1996/06/21
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