Subject:
|
Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:32:04 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
331 times
|
| |
| |
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
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
Message is in Reply To:
47 Messages in This Thread:
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|