flipper:

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:51:54 +0100, "F. Bertolazzi"
wrote:

Michael A. Terrell:

Who do you thionk pays corporate taxes other than their customers?

The shareholders.

I see. Your logic is the tax gets raked out of the company first so
there's less left to distribute.

That might be the case if it was just one company being taxed

Ok, ok, I was just trying to weasle out the corner he put me in. ;-)

The problem started before Roosevelt but he's the one who kicked the
door in. Then, in the 60's, they knocked it right off the hinges and
now Pres. Obama, Pelosi, Reed, et al, are taking a wrecking ball to
the rest.

Thanks for your accurate and clear explaination.
I will read your notes to a friend of my parents, professor (and lawyer) of
fiscal law that wrote some volumes on our fiscal history and ask him to put
down a similar timeline for what happened here, if you like.

I'm pretty sure that the steps were different, but the final result is the
same, only much worse.

The point is that, in the end, governments do what the people want them to.
People want as little resposibility as possible. No, as impossible.

Public healthcare is the final step in deresponsabilization: you can drive
wrecklessly, if you get hurt someone else will pick up the tab, you can
smoke, drink and overeat, chemotherapy, liver transplant and coronary
bypass will be paid by someone else.