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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (13592)	11/11/1997 5:08:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

uexpress.com "...An essay by an editor of The Wall Street Journal, the notorious free-market daily, ridicules 'the general zaniness of the anti-tax culture.' It goes on to cite the 'frightening record' of the sales tax as a substitute for the income tax: 'In 20 of 21 developed countries that tried sales taxes, they didn't work because people found ways to avoid paying them.' The implication of these remarks, for you intellectual slowpokes out there, is that we should be scared by the prospect of a tax that is harder to collect than the current income tax. The text of whether it 'works' is the government's convenience. So much for such 'zany' concerns as the rights, privacy, dignity and peace of mind of the individual taxpayer. The state is not for man, but man for the state. The Wall Street Journal seems to agree with Mussolini on that one. Something tells me John Galt just canceled his subscription."