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To: Les H who wrote (945)	6/23/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2103

That's a hot issue but it will stall for a while at least, but in time they will give in ; I hate sales tax, as it is a flat tax and should never have gotten started anyway. But once they find a way to stick it to us it's never going to go away. Sales tax also adds to a lot of corruption. Before someone takes me to task about flat taxes thinking they are really fair, ( they are simple but not fair at all) The system builds an infrastructure and the more well to do have the advantage of taking more out of the infrastructure, and using it more to their advantage and should pay more in the way of tax. Taxes were first all set up to be progressive as it helps limit the power all getting in the hands of a very few people. However the more powerful have always fought this tooth and nail, and used every form of artifice to hood wink the public into thinking a flat tax is fair. The rich get richer , the poor poorer, and the poor help to arrange it. Jim