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To: Road Walker who wrote (300163)	9/14/2006 9:22:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574177

re: Taxes involved social engineering or economic intervention, but some taxes are much more interventionist than others. Not many... name a few egalitarian taxes. I'm not sure what you mean by "egalitarian taxes". Any tax cut that doesn't also greatly increase tax complexity or offer a major increase in special categories for penalties or breaks is a less interventionist tax. Also a tax code with less special categories is less interventionist. Over time the US tax code has generally become more interventionist. The rates have decreased compared to the New Deal rates but the amount of special breaks and punishments, the rules and the exceptions to the rules and the exceptions to the exceptions keep going up. That means you get an increase in intervention. If you can increase it you can also decrease it. It might not be politically easy but there is nothing inherent in taxes that requires them to be as interventionist as our current system.