On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:53:22 -0600, "Andy Bradford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thus said "Jonathan Ellis" on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:28:52 PDT:
> ``There is, therefore, nothing short of dramatically rolling back income > tax rates (good) or eliminating the income tax altogether (better) that > will even begin to tame the federal leviathan.'' > > > I quit somewhere around his hysterical raving about baby sitters > > becoming tax collectors. > > What's so hysterical about that? If the government found out that you > were making money as a baby sitter, do you think it would just turn away > and not make your customers pay tax on it? How many baby sitters pay income tax on their earnings today? No, they're not all tax criminals. Even the federal government isn't stupid enough to impose a tax when even minimal oversight of its collection would cost far more than the revenue it brings in. Particularly not when it would _also_ be a PR nightmare. This isn't rocket science. > > I'm not saying that fairtax is perfect, but quit swallowing whole > > everything you read on mises.org. > > Swallowing whole? Would you rather I wrote about it at length instead of > referring to someone else's work that does the job properly for the most > part? If writing about it at length prompted you to think about what you were saying and apply a common-sense filter at a bare minimum, then I think that would be well worth your time. Seriously, the babysitter crap was just the tip of the iceberg. -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
