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Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:32:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Carl Nelson wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > > Everyone who buys anything (excepting a few items like food and, in some
> > > cases, clothing) already pays taxes, so this particular fallacy as you
> > > frame it does not exist in the governor's reasoning.
> > 
> > They share part of the tax burden.  But if they don't share the full tax
> > burden, aren't they just, as you put it in another reply to me, squatters?
> 
>   No moreso than if they pay the $10 per annum tax that you proposed.  And I
> would suggest the person in my example is less of a squatter, since yearly sales
> tax (plus hidden taxes like tariffs, etc.) would almost certainly exceed $10.
> 
>   Dave!

Then it's a matter of degrees--the more you pay in taxes the less you are a
squatter?

Dave K



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  Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
 
(...) Beat me to it! :) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
 
(...) If $10 per anum was considered a satisfactory level of payment, then surely a greater tax (sales tax, etc.) is at least as satisfactory? Indeed, I believe the proposal suggested that welfare (gleaned from taxes) be provided to the poor so that (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
 
(...) No moreso than if they pay the $10 per annum tax that you proposed. And I would suggest the person in my example is less of a squatter, since yearly sales tax (plus hidden taxes like tariffs, etc.) would almost certainly exceed $10. Dave! (23 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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