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To: TimF who wrote (91370)	10/22/2008 2:40:32 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541596

If someone's actually poor or near poor, then I guess not having them pay income tax is a good thing. I've always thought that everyone should pay income tax, regardless of how poor. For a poor person, it would be only a token amount, but it seems to me that there's a psychological value in having everyone feeling like a contributor. There's a bond there, regardless of the dollar amount, a shared stake in how the money is spent. My practical side, OTOH, thinks it's terribly inefficient to put people through that effort so they can chip in ten bucks. And then there's the government effort to collect a token amount. But the more the percentage of people who don't pay taxes goes up, the more I return to my first instinct.

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