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To: Tailgunner Joe

"The business of America is business." - Calvin Coolidge.

"It's not personal. It's just business." - Don Vito Corleone

"Property is theft." - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Members of Congress need to step outside the cluttered field for a moment and ask themselves: what is the proper function of a tax code in a democratic society? If the role of the tax code is to regulate human behavior, to encourage some forms of industry over others, to punish bad habits, and to redistribute wealth, then they should just keep tinkering. But if they believe -- as they should -- that the purpose of the tax code is to simply raise revenue, then it's clearly time to consider whether the ludicrously complex, expensive, and burdensome tax code is the best vehicle to accomplish such a straightforward task." - Stephen Moore, director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute

106 posted on 05/24/2004 9:31:56 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (Cash cows are sacred in America...GOT MILKED???)
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To: Veracious Poet

So then you would have supported Steve Forbes' idea of a flat tax, right?


109 posted on 05/24/2004 9:47:44 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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