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To: sourcery
It is amazing how many people do exactly what you have done: spend an enormous time on reinventing the wheel. They do it in great detail, so that the product resembles a refined though.

Alk this instead of opening a book or two.

I have no clue where you got the arguments for taxation that you proceed to dismantle: most certainly, you have omitted the economic ones given in most economic texts. And the arguments that you do impute to the proponents are misrepresented.

80 posted on 04/17/2002 10:19:57 AM PDT by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark
I have no clue where you got the arguments for taxation that you proceed to dismantle: most certainly, you have omitted the economic ones given in most economic texts. And the arguments that you do impute to the proponents are misrepresented.

It may be that you don't like the way I expressed the pro-tax arguments, but I assure you they are not my invention. They are the actual arguments I have encountered, seriously put forth by others. If you think you can do better, then by all means, lets hear it.

I ommitted the economic arguments because they have no bearing. I don't give a hoot what the optimal tax policy may be according to economic theory. The issue is not one of economics, but of morality. If you can't prove your optimal economic policy is moral, and that you have a morally justified right to implement it, then all the economic justification in the world won't save you from rightfully being accused of being morally corrupt, if you go ahead and implement the policy anyway.

Put up or shut up.

82 posted on 04/17/2002 10:54:31 AM PDT by sourcery
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