A national lottery could generate revenue.
$
--- In [email protected], "terry12622000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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" <HRearden@> 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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