Re: Why Obama should pay more in taxes

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Mike Findlay wrote:
> I suppose it would depend on the flat rate you establish.  But any 
> taxation based on income is a form of extortion.  I know that is whacko 
> talk but the idea that your labor, at least a portion of it, is 
> repugnant, to me at least.

I wouldn't call it wacko talk if the tax in question is less than a 
century old.  There might even be people alive today who can still 
remember a time before income tax, I dunno.

Of course, they could probably also remember a time before women got the 
vote, but there you go.  You win some, you lose some.

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