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Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
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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! :) (21 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 (...) (21 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! (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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