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To: jttmab who wrote (14682)	6/11/2002 2:07:13 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Since it is true, perhaps you should do a moment's research before asserting the opposite. Decades-old dairy subsidies are probably the best known example.

To: jttmab who wrote (14682)	6/11/2002 7:51:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

If you want to go in that direction, we could look up the taxes that the American colonists were paying to Great Britain, and if they were substantially lower, we could offer to rescind the Declaration of Independence. It wouldn't help. There taxes are higher then ours now. It's interesting to look at some of the really historic information on taxes, but when you go back ~2,000 years, IMO, you shouldn't make much of it other than having a little fun. Which is what my question was doing. I was mainly having fun too, but I do think 8% is a reasonable tax rate... I do think it server some usefulness other then just a bit of fun. Look at over the course of human history the post WWII tax rates in most modern countries are unusually high. Tim