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To: tejek who wrote (320174)	1/11/2007 3:19:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575738

No, it isn't........you're mixing governance and economics. Imposing a government policy to "discourage the creation of dilettantes", is governance, severely misguided governance, but my supposed "mixing governance and economics" has nothing to do with the issue. There is a certain expense to living in a democracy. To live in one, you a pay certain price. Nothing is for free.......accept it. Yes there is a certain expense to living under any government (democracy or not), the existence of that expense requires some form of taxation (or government ownership of productive assets which in most cases is worse). Imposing some level of taxation in response to that requirement has next to nothing to do with a hypothetical "policy to discourage the creation of dilettantes". So they try to find ways to avoid it.......the gov't will fill the loopholes. Its too bad gov't has to play that game with its citizens. It doesn't have to. It might want to. It could just make taxes as simple and low as possible, and let people make most of their own decisions as to how they will live, what they will buy, and how they will invest.