[Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables

[Todd Tavares]

Same disclaimer as everyone else.....delete if not interested.

    I am so poor, I can not afford to pay attention to this thread.  

   Boo hooo,  it's the poor ones like me who are discriminated against by the tax laws.  I just want to grab a case of beer and go sailing.   But I have got to first pay my sin tax on the beer, and the luxury tax on my boat.  ;^(  sniff.... sniff    lmao  

(JOKING of course)

Todd

P.S.  who wagered it would be Thursday?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:57:20 -0600
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables

> Same disclaimer as everyone else.....delete if not interested.
> 
> Ahh....the ever controversial Bill
> 
> I hope this truly was said "tongue in cheek". If not, then you and your
> neighbors have much to be proud of.
> 
> It's things like this, that make me favor doing away with personal income
> tax altogether and instituting a pure sales tax, with an exemption for the
> basic staples in the grocery store and a few other things like maybe
> clothing (conservative) and medical care (non-elective). With a system like
> this, if one insists on having the fancy and expensive things normally
> associated with the rich, he pays the taxes that should be assessed from the
> rich. Those who choose to live conservatively and save for later, or are
> unable to do more than "just get by" would pay very little, just as they
> should. But there's one thing that's for sure, no matter what you make....as
> soon as you spend big money, you pay big taxes.
> 
> Spoken as someone who contributes his fair share and the shares of a few
> others too.
> 
> Probably contributing to the eventual blow-up, but...........oh well.
> 
> Rik
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Effros" <bill@effros.com>
> To: "R22 List" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:50 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Taxes, Politics, & Fables
> 
> 
> > Paul,
> >
> > Keep those fables coming!
> >
> > Here in Greenwich, Ct. my neighbors and I can't believe how many people
> seem
> > to be willing to pay our taxes for us!  Tax law revisions don't change the
> > total amount that must be collected to pay for what the government spends,
> > they only change the proportions of who pays how much.  So if our taxes go
> > down, somebody else's taxes are going up.
> >
> > So far, Mr. Bush has already saved most of us, here in Greenwich,
> literally
> > millions of dollars in taxes.  Each.  The "Death Tax" fable worked like a
> > charm.
> >
> > Now we get to belly up to the trough yet again, with the "Double Taxation"
> > fable.  Make no mistake, most of our money has never been taxed even once.
> > We are among the four diners who have always eaten for nothing, because
> > under the current tax law system we have been able to show the other
> > diners that we are the poorest by repeatedly deferring our income from one
> > year to the next. (We can do that because we don't take home
> > regular paychecks--according to our tax returns we don't earn a cent.)
> >
> > The only problem is that, eventually, we stand to get hit with a tax that
> is
> > actually proportional to what we have earned.  But no!  Fables to the
> > rescue!  It worked once--could it possibly work again?  If this tax law
> > revision passes as proposed, neither we, nor our families, may ever have
> to
> > pay
> > federal taxes on most of the money we have earned so far in our entire
> > lives!  We can dine for nothing forever!
> >
> > Thank you, thank you, thank you,
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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