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From: mcgeer@ucbvax.ARPA (Rick McGeer)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 01:27:32 EDT
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	This argument merely serves to point up the idiocy of taxing income. If
we really need to tax at the Federal level -- a need we avoided until the
middle of the 19th Century -- then we should probably consider raising the tax
in a less odious and intrusive manner: such as per capita consumption.  A
15-20% across the board VAT would raise sufficient revenue, and it would rid
our lives of a humbug agency which presumes to dictate which religions are
valid and which -- at whim -- may peer into each detail of our lives.  It is
an enormous pity that Justice Douglas, who in Roe v. Wade found a general right
to privacy in the Constitution (if memory serves me correct, in the "penumbrae"
of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Amendments) did not extend that right to
a person's financial affairs.

						-- Rick.


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