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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6181)	7/22/2001 8:30:19 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Hi Maurice, <<the thieving criminal governments are going to run out of money because they will run out of people to steal from. Sure, they'll have some taxing methods - they can just tax the house you live in and if you don't pay, kick you out>> That's one way. Another is to simply get together and save their collective behind by using a unified value-added tax system (which I think is where we are all going, else I am not contributing to my share of the world's headache relief medication). Yet another is, upon the first fraudulent electronic money scam or accident, the governments will force obligatory "insurance" payments from electronic money traffickers, the cost of which will be uniformly passed to the end-user. There are only two governments I am partial to in this world, as I had mentioned a long time ago on this thread, and they are the Philippines and possibly Italy - small, ineffective, without big computers, and few soldiers. Come to think of it, Trinidad is very good in this regard as well, lacking even a tax system, and living off this black liquid coming out of the ground. Gods are kind. Chugs, Jay