Re: How many of you would support a poll tax in place of our current income tax?

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:30:27 -0500

sinister wrote:

>
> Right. Like, you don't want to pay tax on your land, you can't prevent
> other people from using it.

I and my gun say otherwise. Care to try me on this? In the Hobbsean
primordial case the well armed land owner with a reasonably faithful
army of goons can defend his land. He need not pay tax, but he will have
to pay his army.

Bob Kolker

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