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To: nihil who wrote (42045)	6/27/1999 10:41:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

<<If you tax estates, people will die somewhere else>> I am not aware of a vast exodus of dying people, nihil. A few very wealthy people do manage to leave their home countries because of confiscatory taxes, and live in other places until they die, but it is not very many in terms of total population. A per capita tax may have the least effect on economic growth, but it is impossible to levy such on the poor and lower middle classes and argue that there is any fairness in the system, since they already pay the largest percentage of their income for essentials like food, and (hopefully) shelter. You won't get any argument from me on taxing the drug trade. It is obvious that the laws we have now are impossible to enforce, and do not work.