Re: Flat tax proposal

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:21:31 GMT

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:19:51 -0400, "tonyp" <tonyp@world.std.com>
wrote:
>
>"Socialism is a Mental Disease" <root@localhost.> wrote
>
>> "tonyp" <tonyp@world.std.com>
>> >My suggestion:
>> >tax = 57% of ( income - $130K ).
>> >
>>
>> Let me guess: you make less than 130K. And, for some reason, you feel
>> the need to punish those that are more successful than you. Good old
>> envy at work here, huh?
>
>
>Some years more, some years less, but so what?
>

What makes you think people ought to be robbed of their own wealth?

>
>Is the above formula a flat tax?
>

Who cares? 

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