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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (407473)	5/19/2003 9:52:16 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>any individual can incorporate. so corp's have no special protection that people don't have. Every thing else is based upon your feelings of your personal right and wrong. Whose money you thing should be spent on someone else. I think your beliefs are dumb. What else is there to say. I see no need to waste my time arguing with someone who mis-quotes me. Have a nice life.<< Thomas - First, I did not misquote you. Second, you seem to have accidentally proved one of my points with your own statement, quoted above. If an individual has to incorporate to get the same tax breaks a corporation does, then clearly corporations are treated differently. In fact, they are treated not just differently, but preferentially under our tax code. This isn't about rates of taxation, nor is it about how much money the goverment should collect or how they should spend it. It's about whether massive corporations should be given a whole raft of loopholes they can use to avoid taxation. I believe in lower taxes. I believe in smaller government. I don't believe in having an unbelievably complicated tax code that provides loopholes to big corporations. Actually, I still like the idea of either a flat tax or the complete elimination of federal income taxes in favor or a national sales tax. Our government needs money to operate, and it collects the money through income taxes. If we're stuck with that, shouldn't we try to maintain some level of justice into the system? - Allen