Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!denelcor!neal From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Libertarianism as ideology (repl Message-ID: <691@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 13:52:10 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.691 Posted: Sat Mar 23 13:52:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Mar-85 06:52:25 EST References: <1467@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, Colorado Lines: 28 ************************************************************************** > As to what tax is most appropriate and fair: I think that the only > tax should be income tax. Taxes on static property are totally unfair > because they must be paid out of income that may not exist because of > property paid for with money already taxed. Taxes on goods or on > corporations are taken in equal measure from rich and poor, which > strikes me as unfair because the poor need a much larger proportion > of their income just to stay alive. Income tax seems totally fair, > easy to administer, and just. > -- > > Martin Taylor > {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt > {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt I can't help but be struck by the essentailly "socialistic" or "Marxist" definition of "fair" that you are using. (Cf. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".) As a capitalist and a libertarian, I maintain that for a tax or any other required "payment" to be "fair" it should be proportional to the benefit you are getting or expecting to get from whatever it is you are paying for. Regards, Neal Weidenhofer "The law is for protection Denelcor, Inc. of the people" !denelcor!neal