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From: pvl@houxh.UUCP (P.LAMASTER)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: More Earmarking Taxes
Message-ID: <284@houxh.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 17:20:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 17:20:40 1983
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  There's an aspect of earmarking taxes that I haven't yet seen addressed.
It's not clear to me that a given activity should receive funding in
direct proportion to the importance I give it.  Some things inherently
cost more than others and would need a higher degree of funding to sustain
a comparable level of activity.  It would be too easy for "the people"
to mandate that a given level of money be given to a project when the
project couldn't usefully absorb that much.  The result would be akin to cancer
research: (hope I don't step on toes here) work that wasn't related
would be advertised as such so funding could be gotten.
  Pete LaMaster NJ ..ihnp4!houxh!pvl (201)949-0040