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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (930666)	4/16/2016 3:03:58 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	3 Recommendations Recommended By FJB jlallen miraje Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574001

IOW, pay taxes I understand this is too far over your head, but my gentle and generous nature leads me to take a shot anyway. Taxes are a necessary overhead expense. In a sane society they exist solely to grease the skids for enhancing the production and delivery of stuff people want. Now try hard to focus; taxes are an overhead expense and should be minimized to the greatest extent possible. Bad people have been successful at peddling a lousy idea -- that corporations and business entities pay taxes. No! People pay taxes. Most are so dazzled they only conceive of taxes as currency extracted from someone's piggy bank. Every tax increases the cost and restricts the supply of the material things that make others lives better. Taxes also clog the discovery processes that bring us new and delightful treasures, the higher the rate, the greater the impediments. Decent and smart folks have bought the idea that taxes are also a proper way to collect and distribute charity for those really incapable of doing for themselves. Experience suggests that over decades and generations that leads to capture, eventually results quite contrary to intent. That's an oversimplified vision of why low tax and free market societies succeed so over time, the opposite not. Too much to even consider, let alone digest, eh?