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From: SAPPHO@SRI-NIC.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Voluntary taxes
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Date: Thu, 21-Aug-86 19:20:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 21 19:20:44 1986
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To: KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU

I think you misunderstood my remark about people lying about their
income on the allocation form.  Let me phrase it another way.  I was
considering a modification of the tax scheme you mentioned in which
people pay the same taxes they do now but get to allocate them as they
will (in which case the government would already have information
about every individual's income, as it does now).  The modification
would be that instead of allocating the money on their tax forms
(where the government could know what each individual's preferences
were), they could fill out separate, anonymous allocation forms.  This
would preserve anonymity, at the price of making it easy for people to
lie on their allocation forms by saying they were allocating more
money than they had actually given, in effect stealing a little of
everyone else's money.  So the question of whether the government has
the right to know anyone's income is really a separate issue from what
I was discussing, which was whether a certain method of keeping
donations anonymous would be workable.

Lynn Gazis
sappho@sri-nic
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