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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (77863)	4/11/2000 5:24:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We live in a country fortunately where there is the spirit of the thing and the letter of the thing that are always weighed together when a conflict arises. This is very good. I was talking to a man from Pakistan over the weekend. He said that currently it is almost impossible to buy or lease property in Pakistan. I asked why. He said that there is a law on the books that if a Widow owns property the government is not allowed to tax that property. Of course the intent of the law is to protect a person who has been left with no means of support from having the Government take their property. Well, most of the property in Pakistan is put in the name of a Widow as a means of evading taxes. There is no consideration for the spirit of the law in Pakistan.