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Strategies & Market Trends : Income Taxes and Record Keeping ( tax ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: OtherChap who wrote (841)	3/30/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5810

In answer to "who is the government to...." The government is you and me and all the other people you see all around you, acting (or choosing not to act) as a whole. There are many things that are more efficiently performed as a group, inefficient though group action may be. This said after a good 25 years of consideration and living in different countries, almost all of which are considerably less efficient than the USA. peter

To: OtherChap who wrote (841)	3/30/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: Colin Cody	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5810

"once again, stacks of pointless and arbitrary laws have been set up to facilitate the fleecing of america. this is simply rearranging deck chairs on the titanic." The Estate Tax laws are not pointless. They are designed by Liberal Social Re-Engineers who wish to redistribute wealth from the "haves" to the "have nots". If it were not for this type of redistributed wealth the Country might be more like that elsewhere, with just two classes the very very wealthy land owners and the shlubs. I'm not saying whether these tax are "good" or "bad". I'm just saying that they are NOT pointless. Colin