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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: Mon, 14-Oct-85 17:37:43 EDT
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In article <1707@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>
>There might (fat chance) be no debate, if property taxes were abolished
>and only income were taxed (which I think is the only fair kind of tax
>anyway, but that's another story).  

I see.  So not only is it fair to tax a man more when he drives his taxi 60
rather than 40 hours a week, it is also the only fair way to tax.  Why is
it that it is moral and fair to tax production, and not fair to tax anything
else (like, say, consumption).

						Rick.