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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Governments don't create wealth, eh?
Message-ID: <5074@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 10:42:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 10:42:08 1984
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In article <4216@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
~| > If you really think it's theft, you have two ways of avoiding
~| > paying taxes: (1) don't work, or (2) move to the Bahamas.
~| 
~| Item (1) has less-desirable side effects, unfortunately.  Depriving myself
~| of money to make sure the government doesn't take any of it is cutting off
~| my nose to spite my face.  And item (2) would be worth considering, except
~| that it's probably worse in the Bahamas than here.
~|

That was exactly my point. Taken in toto, the regime we have here
leaves you better off, despite the taxation (some of which comes
back to support you directly), than many other countries which have
no tax whatsoever. (Can't speak for the weather, though..)

Dave Sherman
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