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To: Cactus Jack who wrote (238182)	4/29/2003 6:21:05 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

but the point is -- J6P doesn't make payments this way for the most part -- many over-withhold and feel like they are getting something when they file their returns. Withholding is a very great evil, IMO. Of course, my understanding is that it is totally voluntary -- a contract between the employee and employer ... back in '85 -- I was a co-op and I figured out part way through my 8 month stint at IBM that I'd already paid in more than I would owe, so I stopped withholding -- got a very threatening letter from the IRS which I tossed in the trash. At tax time I filed for my refund. BTW -- Don't you love it when the Dems say, "We can't afford such and such a tax cut." We're all in this together, don't you know -- we can't afford not to give X amount of dollars to the Federal government, because we'd be shortchanging ourselves or supposedly our children -- as if the only way to control the deficit is through revenues -- of course, it's a total lie -- there is no control and won't be until something terrible happens. I'd love to see a serious tax revolt take place in the US -- but it will take much more pain before people say enough is enough. As far as I can see icnome taxes don't have anything to do with funding the government. There is no restriction on deficit spending -- there is no restriction on the amount of money allowed in circulation or the credit that can be multiplied on top of it. It's one big farce -- the result is simply a reduction of private sector control over economic resources. Show me someone who will be honest and state this clearly and simply and propose radical reform to move in the other direction and I will vote for them -- I don't care what programs get cut. Less government control and more private control of economic resources can only be good at this pt given the extreme which we have reached.