Billy wrote:
In article
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Kurt Ullman wrote:

In article
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Billy wrote:


Societal infrastructure, telephone system, roads, television, UPS,
Fed Ex, citizens with disposable income, citizens with job skills,
ect., creates conditions where MicroSoft or Ford, et al. can
produce a product and make a profit. The entrepreneur may make the
product but it is society that provides the market. So make the
taxes proportional to the benefit received from society

Of course of all this, only roads are part of government
and thus having to do with taxes. The rest have nothing to do with
government.

Of course it doesn't. It has to do with us being such a good market.

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along?

We have spent money to put ourselves into this position. If anyone
wants to take advantage of it, they should pay.

Take advantage of what? The free market? That would be like saying people
take advantage of oxygen by breathing. The government does not own, or even
have a right, to the market. Of course there are other countries where that
concept has been tried.

The more they make
off of us, the more they pay. It used to be called a progressive
income tax.

Please show us the reference for this notion. And while you're at it, please
help us understand how the consumer will avoid paying this tax themselves?
Or doesn't the concept of pricing goods based on the cost of the product
mean anything to you? Hint: The cost of the tax will get wrapped into the
cost to the consumer.

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Dave
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