Re: Mountains Rush and Moore

From: gregg (saville_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:35:54 GMT

David M. Palmer wrote:

> In article <aranders-2108040110370001@192.168.1.101>, Alan Anderson
> <aranders@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm in favor of tossing out income taxes entirely, myself. I believe
>> that
>> the most appropriate basis for taxation is wealth, not cash flow. Don't
>> tax me based on what I earn or spend. Tax me based on what I *own*.
>
> Yeah, I spend all my income on hookers, drugs, and fast cars that I
> tend to crash within a year. Why should I be taxed the same as someone
> who wastes their money buying a house and saving for retirement?
>

  Your implication is that some expenditures are more "worthy" than others.
Who would you have decide that? You? me? The government?

 Your examples are at the ends of the spectrum but it gets much harder to
"judge" what is a waste of money, when the examples aren't so obvious.

 Who decides whether you have "enough" car or too much?

 And I for one would NOT like the government to have that power of decision.

Gregg
 

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