>The big difference between income tax and regular expense is regular >expenses we pay someone else benefits them, but the money we pay in >taxes is money we pay to ourself for our own benefit. This make income >taxes, even if viewed as an expense, a special kind of outlay.
Leland, now here you may have put your finger on the difference between us. For the most part, because of the excessive regulation and interference in our lives, many of us view much of our tax bill as money flushed down the toilet... hence a definite expense not payment for a benefit. Beyond that, I get benefit from the phone company, but my phone bill is still an expense. I would agree that deficit spending is the culprit, but many see this as the result in excessive spending and government operation rather than insufficient taxation. Larry Miller --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
