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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (701916)	9/14/2005 4:59:51 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"Ok Buddy, lets talk about your idea. What would a 100% tax on death do for the economy?" LOL!!!!!!! What would a 100% tax on income do? A 100% tax on consumption???? Don't be RIDICULOUS! When you say you are going to 'talk about my idea', why don't you actually TALK ABOUT MY IDEA... instead of making up something I've NEVER suggested, and certainly don't claim. Quit being disingenuous. I proposed a FLAT (and low) TAX on all sources of income, and elimination of most every loophole and 'special tax preference item'. I never suggested a '100% tax' on ANYTHING. (PS --- totally apart from your bald-faced lie in suggesting that I ever put forward such a ridiculous proposition, you actually made a clever joke... perhaps all unawares. It's basic economics that a '100% tax' will reduce production of the taxed item to zero... so you seem to be seem to be making an economics joke... by 'taxing death at 100%' you would reduce the national death rate to ZERO... er, at least the official death rate: I predict a booming black market economy in ways to maintain the fiction of life in one's deceased relatives, LOL!) Now... why not muster up the guts to REALLY discuss my proposal, not a falsified one?