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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27774)	4/16/2008 4:33:53 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"nor have I ever suggested anything like the '30%' figure in your remark." You can understand my confusion. You stated you support the Flat Tax. The federal rate for equalibrium would be around 30%. Frat Taxing: having every conceivable interest group form a fraternity to lobby for and generally receive special tax breaks. It works better with the missing 'm'. Sorry for the typo. "Like what we --- unfortunately --- have so very much of right now in our massively-over-complex and corrupted tax codes...." Exactly. The IRS fails what many consider to be the most important rule of business: "KISS". "You want to reduce tax bites at the Federal AND the State AND the Local levels to 10% max? (Sounds GREAT! Sign me up! ...However I seriously doubt that anything quite as low as "10%" combined Fed/State/Local is obtainable given our current 'Imperial' overstretch and existing statutory obligations... such as interest on debt and transfer payouts due based upon taxes previously deducted from the citizenry, etc.)" What is past cannot be changed. We will live the remainder of our lives in the future. Thus I devote most of my effort to improving the future rather than lamenting the errors of the past. The US with its excessive taxes is killing the entrepreneurial golden goose that has made it so rich in comparison to the rest of the world. Many people who lament the fact that people can achieve in the US never stop to consider that a poor person in the US has several times better of a life than many middle class people in some of the poorer nations. If God only asks for 1/10 of our wages what arrogant piss ant in government actually believes themselves to be more important than God? Remove any and all from office.