Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and done (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:00:44 -0500 From: Petro <petro@playboy.com> Subject: Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and done better (Re: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force)
Roads are the easiest (assuming a government model) things to apply road use taxes to, simply tax gasoline, oil, and tires. Scale your tire tax based on weight and apply it to bicycles as well, then everyone (execpt peds) who uses pays.
Screw that, tax the shoes. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------
At 07:56 PM 11/10/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:00:44 -0500 From: Petro <petro@playboy.com> Subject: Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and done better (Re: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force)
Roads are the easiest (assuming a government model) things to apply road use taxes to, simply tax gasoline, oil, and tires. Scale your tire tax based on weight and apply it to bicycles as well, then everyone (execpt peds) who uses pays.
Screw that, tax the shoes.
And every man (and woman) will be come a cobbler,,, Reeza! If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life. -stolen from a cypherpunk sig
At 8:56 PM -0500 11/10/98, Jim Choate wrote:
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:00:44 -0500 From: Petro <petro@playboy.com> Subject: Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and done better (Re: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force)
Roads are the easiest (assuming a government model) things to apply road use taxes to, simply tax gasoline, oil, and tires. Scale your tire tax based on weight and apply it to bicycles as well, then everyone (execpt peds) who uses pays.
Screw that, tax the shoes.
Ok, just do it in proportion to the weight rating, and the road usage. -- "To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust" http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html Petro::E-Commerce Adminstrator::Playboy Ent. Inc.::petro@playboy.com
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