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To: marcos who wrote (48129)	8/1/1999 11:35:00 AM
From: Achilles	Respond to of 108807

It's interesting though, Marcos, that in the USA the National Sales Tax is being backed by right wing anti-tax groups. In Canada and Europe it seems to be the invention of the center and left. I guess you as a Canadian would prefer to have no National Sales Tax at all and higher income taxes? But the choice really offered would presumably be a slightly lower sales tax or a slightly lower income tax. Which would you prefer? According to the Cato organization (http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-272.html), which advocates the tax, a revenue neutral sales tax would have to be 15% tax inclusive (i.e. an item costing $85 comes to $100 with tax), or 18% according to regular calculations. If payroll taxes are to be replaced too, this would require a sales tax of 23% (again tax inclusive, which means 30% according to normal calculations). A 30% national sales tax would I think not be popular.