Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!alberta!ncc!real!Oliver
From: Oliver@real.FIDONET.ORG (Oliver McDonald)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: A ?new? Proposal (was Re: Tax Revolt Now!!)
Message-ID: <250.24E8E242@real.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 16 Aug 89 03:31:46 GMT
Organization: The (only) Real World, Edmonton AB.  (403) 477-0803
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In an article of <15 Aug 89 13:56:01 GMT>, mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason) writes:

 DM>In article <1989Aug14.231027.11461@lsuc.on.ca> dave@lsuc.on.ca (David 
 DM>Sherman) writes:
 DM>
 DM>1) Has any serious consideration ever been given to having ALL revenue
 DM>collected through a (progressive) personal income tax.  Cancel all 
 DM>sales
 DM>taxes, user fees, etc.  It would be MUCH cheaper to collect.  The top
 DM>rate would probably be 60%-70%, but at least you'd see all the
 DM>taxation in one place, and the government could tune the
 DM>progressiveness of the tax as appropriate.

Yah, this might work, if only we could trust the government to tune the tax  
appropriately.  They seem to be able to do little in an appropriate maner.

 DM>2) We will soon have the hardware in place that we could have a
 DM>capital transfer tax.  If all `money' where kept in computers & we
 DM>used a debit card to buy everything from a house to a corporation to a
 DM>bubble gum, the government could skim some small amount (1-5%) off
 DM>EVERY transfer of money.  The costs of collection would be even lower,
 DM>it would be relatively painless, and in some sense it would be very
 DM>fair.

Yes, and with little extra work one could track the location, tastes,  
actions, of every person in the country.  Just think what a boon this would  
be to the police system. 

Big Brother is possible NOW with this type of thing.  Always use cash, it's  
untraceable...

Oliver.

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