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Article #987Re: Income tax repealed....maybe...
From: Ian Sutherland
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4qnhej$ih2@mule1.mindspring.com>, David E. Banks <davidba@atl.mindspring.com> wrote: >Who ever said that the world or life is fair. Live in the real >world!!! We're talking about a system (the Federal tax system) that human beings create themselves, not some force of nature. Of course we're going to try to design it to have the properties we find desirable! My main quibble with the word "fair" in this case is that people often use it as if (1) it means the same thing to everyone, (2) everyone gives "fairness" the same priority with respect to other properties, and (3) everyone even has the same list of of other desirable properties. As far as I can see, none of these three properties hold. -- Ian Sutherland ian@eecs.nwu.edu Sans Peur
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: 106a7c,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gid106a7c,public X-Google-Thread: 1130cb,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gid1130cb,public X-Google-Thread: 116100,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gid116100,public X-Google-Thread: 10e835,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e835,public X-Google-Thread: fa15f,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa15f,public X-Google-Thread: 10fef2,7bc10164a3063e56 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fef2,public From: ian@eecs.nwu.edu (Ian Sutherland) Subject: Re: Income tax repealed....maybe... Date: 1996/06/25 Message-ID: <4qp4g7$774@news.eecs.nwu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 162098754 references: <4q7sk1$ug@nntpa.cb.lucent.com> <4qhke7$t1g@mule2.mindspring.com> <4qmsf1$9ht@nntp.atlanta.com> <4qnhej$ih2@mule1.mindspring.com> organization: EE/CS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. newsgroups: oh.general,ne.general,atl.general,chi.general,ga.general,in.general,ne.nearnet.general