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Article #991Re: Income tax repealed....maybe...
From: Andy Borsa
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4qp4g7$774@news.eecs.nwu.edu>,
ian@eecs.nwu.edu (Ian Sutherland) writes:
>
> 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.
Hmmm. If that's true, then how can a human-designed tax system be
fair? It appears from the endless tax/fairness discussions, that there
is no way to ever achieve that.
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Andy Borsa -- !!!The Universe is discreetly analog!!!
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