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Subject: Voluntary taxes
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Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 20:28:28 EDT
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    From: Lynn Gazis <SAPPHO@SRI-NIC.ARPA>

    The advantage of this system over only relying on donations is
    that people wouldn't not pay because they had been too lazy to get
    around to it or because they had underestimated their share, but
    because they didn't believe they should be paying.

  Sounds good to me, except for the privacy issue.  I don't think
there is much chance people will just forget.  As for how much they
'owe', suggested tax tables could be published.

    I don't see why it is an invasion of privacy for the government to
    know which of its programs I object to.  How else can it not put
    my money there?

  Donations could be anonymous.

    ... But then there would be no way to know which people are lying
    about their income on the allocation form.

  Why should government know my income?  If taxes were voluntary, they
wouldn't need to.
                                                              ...Keith

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