Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Finnigann
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 12:27 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Finnigann to Richardw on Mon Sep 12 2005 19:16:00

 > No single tax plan will be fair to everyone.

If everyone is treated equally, where is the unfairness?

 > Almost before the ink is dry one group or another will see inequaties. 

So?  People find ways to bring high-duty items through customs without 
paying.  Does that mean we should abandon the process of declaring items 
dutyable?

(In actual fact, I think that the law regarding payment of customs duties 
is one of the two laws that *everyone* has a *duty* to try to break.  The 
other one is the law regarding payment of income tax.)

 > A flat sales tax is unfair to those those earn little more than they 
 > need to survive.

It may be HARD on these people, but it isn't UNFAIR on them.

 > A steped tax pushes the burden towards the wealthy.

Who decided that the burden should be 'pushed' towards one group or 
another?  Now *that* sounds unfair!

 > If we all made 100,000 + then it wouldn't be such a question. 

Why?  because we'd all be victimized the same?

 > And it's not sick to take advantage of the laws. It's reprehensible to make 
 > laws that way in the first place.

So you AGREE that finding loopholes in the tax laws is a good thing?


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