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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (21414)	6/16/2003 5:30:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

It is easy to see that this notion is wrong. Not only is it not east to see, it is impossible to see rationally because it is nor wrong. If taxes were reduced to zero If taxes were reduced to zero then you have no government and thus anarchy. Like many other ideas tax cuts could be taken to ridiculous extremes but the fact that the results from taking the idea to ridiculous extremes would be bad doesn't mean that the idea is bad. your theory would predict that people would have total control of their economic life Not at all. A general tendency to have more control over your economic life when taxes are lower doesn't mean you have total control when there is no taxes. No one ever has total control over their life, or even just the big part that economics deals with. but the truth is that corporations influence your personal economy much more than does the government. The truth is that the government coerces. The corporations, except in the few cases where they have basically set themselves up as government for a local area, can only try to convince you or use the power of government against you. The government can imprison you for not paying for its services and can shoot you if you resist. If any company can shoot me for not buying their product then I will agree that we have a case where the company needs to be taken down a peg. The company that has the most control of me is my employer, but my employer only tried to control the aspects of my life pertaining to my employment. If they tried to go beyond that I would find employment elsewhere and they could not stop me. If however I don't like the deal the US government gives me I would have to sell my house and move to another country. And even then the US would still try to collect taxes from me. I could renounce my citizenship but restrictions on that are being pushed as well. Tim