Re: Liberals: Defend capital gains taxes

On Apr 24, 2:38=A0pm, "da pickle" <jcpickels@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(nospam)hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Bob T."
>
> > > All money is taxed multiple times.
>
> > You act like that is a good thing.
>
> No, he acts like it is reality. =A0It's like discussing death with
> somebody - just because you acknowledge that everyone dies eventually,
> does not make death a "good thing". =A0Similarly, acknowledging the fact
> that money is taxed over and over and over again as it circulates
> around the economy does not mean it is a "good thing", it just means
> that arguments that say "You can't charge tax on _that_, because the
> money has been taxed already!" are fallacious.
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> Bob, I have just had a bunch of old posts show up this afternoon ...
they
> are all from recpoker. =A0Have you (or anyone else) had a bunch of posts
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ust
> show up that are old?

Not that I've noticed.
>
> On the point about multiple taxation, I disagree. =A0The argument is not
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> you "can't" double or triple or worse tax money as it circulates ... it
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> that such "reality" is a "bad thing" not a good thing.

It's an inevitable thing.  If we want to have a debate about tax
policy, we should weigh different forms of taxation against each other
and debate which do the least harm to the economy, not construct
strawmen about "multiple taxation."
>
> Taxes should be open and obvious and not hidden in holes. =A0Every
citizen=

> should pay taxes if they would like to vote. =A0The easiest solution is
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> everyone gets to vote their taxes ... weighted by now much each pays.
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his
> one person one vote stuff will eventually kill us.

Sure, and it would save poor people the trouble of voting at all.  So
what if Bill Gates could sell 1% of his Microsoft stock, pay ten
million dollars in taxes, and have more votes than the entire state of
Louisiana?  So what if Paris Hilton and Britney Spears could each vote
a hundred times for each vote cast by a doctor?  Democracy is
overrated, anyway.  Let's try a plutocracy!  If that doesn't work, we
could take one small step further and re-instate the monarchy.  Does
Queen Elizabeth have any American relations?  Or should we just hire
the artist once again known as "Prince"?  It's too bad "The King" is
dead.

- Bob T.