Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes
Sandy Sandfort
sandfort at crl.com
Mon May 6 03:28:02 PDT 1996
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SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,
On Sun, 5 May 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:
> didn't the feudal vassels only pay 33% ?
Actually, no. When I used to edit a magazine, I commissioned an
article about how much "tax" slaves, serfs, etc. paid. That is,
how much of what they produced, did they get to keep; how much
went to their masters. The surprising, cross-cultural answer my
researcher/writer found was that they got to keep everthing they
produced except 5-10%. That's a lot better, percentage-wise,
than for modern "tax slaves."
S a n d y
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