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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.taxes
Subject: Re: Business taxation
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 17:06:51 EDT
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Re: Only people (not businesses) can pay taxes (because the cost of
    the tax is passed on to the consumer)

I could make the same argument in reverse. I only consider whether my
salary is reasonable based upon what it is after taxes as (basically)
that's all I have to spend.

If taxes were 90% for me I would demand a higher gross salary to
compensate and my boss would probably have to comply if s/he wanted to
keep me or at least attract others. I couldn't just live on 10% of my
salary because to do otherwise would be "unfair", I'd stick it to my
boss (who would stick it to his/her customers who would stick it
to...)

Thus the wheel of economics goes round and round, you can't just take
a snapshot of it in one state and analyze it from that viewpoint.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University