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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Tax Supported" Churches.
Message-ID: <5610@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 17:21:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: fortune.5610
Posted: Wed Oct  2 17:21:57 1985
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Reply-To: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard brower)
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Summary: 

In article <10506@ucbvax.ARPA> mcgeer@ucbvax.UUCP (Rick McGeer) writes:
>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
>						-- Rick.

However, the person who needs to spend 100% of his/her income on products
ends up paying 15-20% of their income on taxes, whereas, the person making
$250K may end up paying less than 1% of their income.  This sounds fair?


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