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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs

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To: ahhaha who wrote (2504)6/22/2001 11:19:19 AM
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This is a very poor example because using tax incentives to stimulate a wasting asset, real estate, is definitely wrong.

Do you want to imply that tax incentives for broadband equipment are better? How do you know that today's technology isn't superseded by some unknown "superband system"? Tax incentives are just as bad a way of interfering with the free market as the many Fed "saving the world" procedures.

What you mean is that the tax incentives provided a supply where there was little demand.

Yep. You have written yourself that dial-up speed suffices for many tasks currently. Tax incentives for BB - providing supply for little demand, structurally comparable.

tax cutting of all kinds gets a bad name

I am not against a general cutting of tax levels. I oppose cutting taxes for specific targets identified by government.

capitalism isn't practiced in Europe.

It is, but not officially. Some scientists estimate the "black", i.e. tax-free market, to have an annual volume of DM 500 billion in Germany. That segment is pure capitalism.
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