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To: bentway who wrote (537774)12/20/2009 9:10:11 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1577886
 
>> Challenge the income tax, sales tax, or any other tax you have to pay for "existing".

There is no tax on merely "existing".

Until this legislation.



To: bentway who wrote (537774)12/21/2009 6:28:37 AM
From: Taro  Respond to of 1577886
 
"The key issue, as I understand it, is whether government can impose a tax or penalty for merely "existing"."

Sure and after taxing your right to exist, next comes the tax on your right to die.

That would follow the current logic of first taxing your income and next taxing your estate.

/Taro



To: bentway who wrote (537774)12/23/2009 3:44:32 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 1577886
 
Income tax is a tax on receiving income. Sales tax is (depending on how you look at it) a tax on selling, buying, or both. Neither is a tax on existing.


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