I have a lot of respect for Harry but he is wrong taxes are not necessary if you got enought honest rational people in the country to fund the government through donnations, imports are around 2 trillion dollars, if a 3% custom duty would be enough that would bring in 60 billion dollars. If 60 billion dollars is enough that is 6 tenths of 1% of all the income in the country, so if everyone gave 6 dollars for every 1,000 dollars they made that would be enough, if only 5% gave 120 dollars for every 1,000 dollars they made there would be enough, if giving a total of 60 billion dollars is the rational thing to do and you don't have at least 5% of the people in the country willing to give 12% of their income to fund the 60 billion dollars then you sure don't have enough people to have a rational, honest and just government. So what is the point of taxing if it is going to pay for a sorry government anyway? I fiqure you can at least get 20% of the people to kick in 3% of their income or at least 20% of the retail merchants would be willing to donate 4% to 6% of the purchase price to the government and advertise the fact they do that, several merchants today advertise and donate as much or more to various causes. Merchants often funded turnpikes even though they knew there would be a lot of free riders not paying the toll and the operation would be in the red a good deal of the time, still they saw the need of good roads for customers to be able to get to their stores so they funded the roads, it was the rational thing to do.--- In [email protected], "hrearden_hr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp" > <thomaslknapp@> wrote: > > > "Tariffs (or 'duties') are taxes on imports. A tariff isn't a 'good' > > tax; it's just a tax. But the government can collect it without > > sending IRS agents to snoop through your records. Until we find a way > > to finance government without taxes or a way to assure our safety > > without any government, some form of taxation will be necessary. And > > my choice is to use tariffs and excise taxes -- as the Founding > > Fathers did." > > > > -- "Freedom to work, to earn and to buy," from _The Great Libertarian > > Offer_, by Harry Browne, http://www.harrybrowne.org/GLO/FreeTrade.htm > > > > Tom Knapp > > > > > I would not use human labor the way the founding fathers did. My > choice would be not to enslave workers. I support voluntary > co-operation in dealing with my fellow man. > > $ >
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