> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:11:43 -0500, S. Isaac Dealey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:32:02 -0500, S. Isaac Dealey
>> I'm not sure I agree that logic is any different than
>> saying that all taxes are unfair because, you know,
>> I earned all the money I have...

> Not really.  It's just a matter of how many types of
> transactions incur tax and how often you are taxed.
> What is that dollar you earned worth once it's been
> through the ringer a thousand times? And why should I
> save any money for my kids at all if I can't do
> anything with it when I die?

So you're still saying it's more fair to tax me on the money I earn
with my blood, sweat and tears (since I will likely have no
inheritance) than to tax your children out of money you give them
which they haven't earned.

> Perhaps this explains why so many people in America don't
> save enough money and depend on broken things like Social
> ecurity to survive? (tounge firmly in cheek)

Not everyone has the ability to save. Yes, there are some who have the
ability and still don't... but there are a lot of people who simply
never earn enough to save, who don't have special trade-skills or
college educations, who have no leverage to "get up" financially.

---

p.s. sorry if I seem particularly confrontational tonight -- it's been
a long few weeks, feeling burned out and likely being a bit
reactionary as a result. I'm actually not liking my job much (at all?)
lately (for reasons that have been common to a lot of my previous
jobs) and struggling to try and make time to continue development on
the framework and its plugins in the hopes of eventually being able to
support myself solely from revenues from New Epoch rather than a
salaried day-job. Always on the verge but never over the hill --
that's part of the problem -- part of the reason I keep getting burned
out.


s. isaac dealey     954.522.6080
new epoch : isn't it time for a change?

add features without fixtures with
the onTap open source framework

http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p49777853/
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