Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!alberta!calgary!!fare From: fare@.ucalgary.ca (Michael David Farebrother) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Somebody inform me on the error of my ways... Summary: Tax Ideas Message-ID: <1713@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 17:48:51 GMT References: <401@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Reply-To: fare@enelg.UUCP (Michael David Farebrother) Distribution: can Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 9 I just wonder if someone could shoot some holes in my theory. Apart from the fact that no-one would elect people planning to do this, what is wrong with throwing out the income tax act, and replacing it with a "30(?)% income tax" , no exclusions, no deductions, just report your income and pay 30% of it. Maybe the number is not enough, but what about the basic idea? Mycroft Farebrother