[Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables

[Rik Sandberg]

Same disclaimer as everyone else.....delete if not interested.

Ahh....the ever controversial Bill

I hope this truly was said "tongue in cheek". If not, then you and your
neighbors have much to be proud of.

It's things like this, that make me favor doing away with personal income
tax altogether and instituting a pure sales tax, with an exemption for the
basic staples in the grocery store and a few other things like maybe
clothing (conservative) and medical care (non-elective). With a system like
this, if one insists on having the fancy and expensive things normally
associated with the rich, he pays the taxes that should be assessed from the
rich. Those who choose to live conservatively and save for later, or are
unable to do more than "just get by" would pay very little, just as they
should. But there's one thing that's for sure, no matter what you make....as
soon as you spend big money, you pay big taxes.

Spoken as someone who contributes his fair share and the shares of a few
others too.

Probably contributing to the eventual blow-up, but...........oh well.

Rik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Effros" <bill@effros.com>
To: "R22 List" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables


> Paul,
>
> Keep those fables coming!
>
> Here in Greenwich, Ct. my neighbors and I can't believe how many people
seem
> to be willing to pay our taxes for us!  Tax law revisions don't change the
> total amount that must be collected to pay for what the government spends,
> they only change the proportions of who pays how much.  So if our taxes go
> down, somebody else's taxes are going up.
>
> So far, Mr. Bush has already saved most of us, here in Greenwich,
literally
> millions of dollars in taxes.  Each.  The "Death Tax" fable worked like a
> charm.
>
> Now we get to belly up to the trough yet again, with the "Double Taxation"
> fable.  Make no mistake, most of our money has never been taxed even once.
> We are among the four diners who have always eaten for nothing, because
> under the current tax law system we have been able to show the other
> diners that we are the poorest by repeatedly deferring our income from one
> year to the next. (We can do that because we don't take home
> regular paychecks--according to our tax returns we don't earn a cent.)
>
> The only problem is that, eventually, we stand to get hit with a tax that
is
> actually proportional to what we have earned.  But no!  Fables to the
> rescue!  It worked once--could it possibly work again?  If this tax law
> revision passes as proposed, neither we, nor our families, may ever have
to
> pay
> federal taxes on most of the money we have earned so far in our entire
> lives!  We can dine for nothing forever!
>
> Thank you, thank you, thank you,
>
> Bill Effros
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