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To: C Kahn who wrote (83)	11/1/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: James1000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 247

I decided to see just how much of the federal tax money I approve of. If you include the funding that I'd rather see in the states hands then I approve of about 15% or 300 billion of the money the federal government is spending, which would bring federal rates to 3% or 4% if they continued to tax companies. I would like to see the government stop taxing or reduce taxes for companies and increase individual taxes. This would allow people to see that about just under half of our money goes to the government. The only companies that should be taxed are harmful drug companies such as Philip Morris and companies that do not comply 100% with pollution regulations. I also think that companies should be able to sell products as harmful as they want as long as they have very large, clear labels, are heavily taxed, and no US media company is allowed to advertise them. If I lived in an urban residential area I would rather see sin stores in a few secluded spots than hear gang shootings every few nights. All the charity, retirement programs, and educational funding should be handed over to the states. The federal government would of course lie out a few basic parameters for things such as education but the states should have most of the power. The idea of this is obvious. Since there would be 50 competing states taxes would very quickly lower or people would simply move. It would soon be individuals responsibility to care for the poor and individuals responsibility to plan for their own future. The whole concept will probably never happen because the federal government is too power-hungry and global oriented but that is the way it would work best.