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To: tejek who wrote (320276)	1/12/2007 12:26:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1576160

So they try to find ways to avoid it.......the gov't will fill the loopholes. Its too bad gov't has to play that game with its citizens. It doesn't have to. It might want to. That makes no sense. It makes a lot of sense. Government doesn't have to play games of creating complex tax codes, and then shifting around the loopholes. It can just have a simple low tax rate. But complex codes give more power to politicians, and higher rates give them more money. So politicians want to play the game your talking about, even if it isn't actually required. It could just make taxes as simple and low as possible, and let people make most of their own decisions as to how they will live, what they will buy, and how they will invest. Like I said, you don't want to accept that there is a certain cost to living in a democracy. The cost of government (or the cost to avoid anarchy) can be met by a simple, and relatively low tax regime. The fact that the cost is real, doesn't justify any arbitrary level of taxation. The "there is a cost to live in society" argument might be reasonable as an argument against someone calling for no taxes, but its silly as an argument against low taxes.

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