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To: michael97123 who wrote (382657)	5/5/2008 3:39:46 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 1575395

You cannot consider taxes in isolation. Higher taxes mean more revenue for the government. Ronald Reagan liked to joke about the government, but in reality there are a lot of things that the government can do better than can be done in a piecemeal fashion. If the taxes are raised and no services are offered then the money is basicly being pilfered and that is of no benefit to the nation. If however you get some problem taken care of for your money then the nation can prosper. Finland has very high taxes but is very entreprenurial because the Finns get something for their money and that leaves them with less little problems to cope with as they get on with their business. In short, taxes are not the problem, corruption is the problem. Taxes are just a tradeoff for whether a service should be universally available and therefore public, or just provided on demand for a fee by private interests. TP