Re: "Why the Georgist movement has not succeeded:" - by Warren Samuels

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:51:52 GMT

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:58:09 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:

>royls@telus.net wrote:
>>
>> As I have pointed out before, that tax was clearly designed for the
>> purpose of giving taxes that bear on the rich a bad name.
>
>And all along I thought the luxury tax was to raise money for the gummint.

No. That was the story concocted for the benefit of the credulous.
The tax raised almost no revenue, and has probably received more
negative media commentary per dollar of net revenue raised than any
other US tax, ever.

-- Roy L

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