On Wed, 3 Aug 1994, Timothy C. May wrote:
secret police organizations like the IRS. A VAT would do the trick nicely and could be easily built into the DigiCash system ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ of the future. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not the untraceable cash systems most of us are interested in, that's for sure. Since transactions between "Alice" and "Bob" are invisible to outsiders, and they may not even know the identity of the other, then it's hard to imagine how the Tax Man interjects himself. Which is a good reason to tax only property and government services. Yes, I am a communist Libertarian, and favor a 1%ish 100 year tax on land, water, and sky.(but not the information content of the land or wood, so a house is the same as a field is the same as a skyscraper).
Berzerk.