Re: Salon: SS Reform: "Bush's Dirty Little Secret"

From: Courageous (dontwant_at_spam.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:40:18 -0800

>>One can only feasibly tax excess.

>Defined as...?

Good question.

>>One cannot get blood out of a turnip.
>
>Uh-oh. Here it comes. "Income is wealth, but wealth is not wealth."
>That about it?

No.

>>I believe that, if we are to tax in order to have government,
>>what is fair game is disposable income.

>That about it?

No. You've made the mistake of assuming. Here you assumed exclusivity,
a message that you wanted to hear, apparently so that you could
satisfy yourself with an argument.

I would think that a certain amount of assets, past a certain
point, are equally fair game. While this would mean something like
a "standard deduction" for a land or property, I'm against that in that
particular case for other reasons, particularly because I don't favor
incentives the idle holding of property.

I'd be open to talking about that for small owner-occupied homesteads,
in that narrow context.

Another bit of fair game would be sales taxes, on things that are
clearly the kind of purchases one makes when in "excess".

C//

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