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Strategies & Market Trends : IRS, Tax related strategies--Traders -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WallStBum who wrote (528)	10/20/1998 10:24:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1383

>>...you've PROVEN MY POINT! Are you speaking to me? Are you sure you didn't misread my post and perhaps attribute to me what I quoted from Colin's original? Just possibly <G>? Well, it is my fault for responding to an old post. Still ... >> How totally ABSURD! (Note: The above line is a quote.) I presume you mean what I quoted, since my comment was: Such a policy would put tremendous pressure on the miscreants who misrepresent themselves as our representatives to own up or get, to borrow a phrase (see below) "rode out on a rail" at the next election. I, for one, do not believe our current oppressive tax system could be maintained in the face of it. However, whereas I've often disagreed strongly with Colin, I've never found his comments absurd. It's speculation, after all, that eliminating withholding would provide the benefits we (you and I) think it would, however strongly we may believe it to be true (and apparently we do believe it; I do, certainly). Colin correctly points out that there's another side to it, with consequences. I think it would work and be worth it; he disagrees; I think he's wrong <GGG>. Since it's my post, I get to say it last (for the moment) <GGGGG>. Spots