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In article <4q95aa$7cq@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>,
Maureen Eagle <maureen@mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
>3.  *Everyone* will be taxed.  Drug dealers will no longer be able
>to avoid taxation -- they'll catch it when they buy their car, or
>go out to dinner.  

 Not to mention the fact that all those drug sales will be taxable,
right?

 (Drug dealers, however, will not be liable for tax on the raw goods,
since this is a consumption, not VAT tax, but they will have to
report and collect the tax on goods sold.)

 What's this?  Those sales are already illegal, and wouldn't be
reported?  Anybody think those same drug dealers might also use
illegal channels to buy their other goods?

>Eliminating the income tax will also *decriminalize*
>a lot of people who basically want to do the right thing but fall
>on the wrong side of the IRS.  

 Who, who is engaged in legal activities, falls on the wrong side
of the IRS?

>State sales taxes are collected with very little paperwork (the store
>files a few forms a year for taxes paid by hundreds or thousands of
>individuals).  The way things are with the federal income tax, paperwork
>accumulates by the mound for each individual. 

 It's a small enough tax that there's little motivation to go to much
trouble cheating (except for shipping goods from NYC to New Jersey, and
even then it's only for higher priced goods), and it's backed up with
income tax data such that hiding the sales would be difficult.

 Massachusetts collects sales tax on what a car should have sold for, even
if it actually sold for less, or for a nominal dollar.  (Gifts are allowed
within a family.)
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