John Smith wrote in news:irh49m$id0$3@dont-
email.me:
On 5/24/2011 1:18 PM, wrote:
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You chose the easy point of my post to reply to.
The point you ignored is that your suggested system - "Let me put this
more bluntly. If I buy and item and pay 7% sales tax, the top one
percent should buy an item and pay a 42.7% sales tax, that way they
will be contributing their fair share to run government ..." - is
either impossible to implement, or requires a dictatorship.
...
Yes, that is a fair system, you simply want to take it literally and
say
it doesn't work. I am not stuck on any particular system to implement
it with. Any system which can demonstrate that it can successfully
accomplish the goal, and costing the least, would be great.
THINK for a change, John. How would a system like that have to work?
How would a merchant know whether to charge 7% sales tax or 42% sales tax
or some amount in between?
Any system only needs to manage that 1% of those with control of 42.7%
of the financial money pay 42.7% of the sales taxes. And that 20% at
the top pay 50.3% of the taxes.
And just how do you think it knows which one you are? Or who is in those
brackets? You are looking at Big Brother from 1984 big time.
I simply gave a simplified version of what is to be accomplished.
No, you showed that you really don't understand what is involved in that
scheme.
Those
with any common sense would have realized it was over simplified ...
REally, really oversimplified....so much so that you don't seem to have
any grasp of the basics.
I don't give a rats arse how you get the water from the well, just that
the water comes from the well ...
If you are whining about the costs and fairness of things, you really
should care. In this case you are pushing the costs would completely
overwhelm the result.
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Sleep well tonight....RD (The Sandman)
If you woke up this morning....
Don't complain.