It could help but legal gambling would cut into the sells of lottery
tickets, still churches and various non profits sell raffle tickets
and have bingo where gambling is legal. Possible a merchant
association like the Chamber Of Commerce could combine a lottery with
the percentage of sales
donation.
Ayn Rand recomended three types of volunter funding, a
lottery, a volunter tax better named a donation, and contract
insurance. A merchant could do all three with a sale, offer contract
insurance on the purchase good or service, include a lottery ticket
to win a million dollars or whatever and forward the name of the
customer as to an advertised list of donors if the customer wanted
that. Many would be proud to have their name on a list of donors and
so would many of the
merchants.
I would perfer that even self sufficent people who never
bought anything be able to get their legal actions heard in court but
maybe the contract insurance could provide an attorney for both the
customer and merchant.--- In
[email protected], "hrearden_hr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> A national lottery could generate revenue.
>
> $
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "terry12622000" <cottondrop@>
> 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.
> > >
> > > $
> > >
> >
>
ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
