Re: How many of you would support a poll tax in place of our current income tax?
From: sinister (sinister_at_nospam.invalid)
Date: 03/29/05
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:07:13 GMT
"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> xyzer@hotmail.com wrote:
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>> In the sort of poll tax I have in mind, everyone over the age of, say,
>> 18 or 20 or whatever age you'd want to make it would pay or accrue the
>> same tax liability per year.
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> How do you accomodate those who are making so little that a penny of tax
> would threaten them with homelessness or starvation?
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> If tax is related to the ability to pay it, it is rates that should be
> equalized, not amounts. A fixed poll tax is the last word in regression.
> To answer your question a fixed amount poll tax sucks lemons. But we shold
> have voluntary use taxes with opt out provisions.
Right. Like, you don't want to pay tax on your land, you can't prevent
other people from using it.
> Bob Kolker
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