Re: Liberals: Defend capital gains taxes

Randolph M. Jones wrote, On 4/25/08 8:53 AM:

> The person he was responding to was making the argument that capital 
> gains tax is bad *because* it is "double taxation".  Chris was pointing 
> out that "double taxation" can't be the reason it's bad.  If you just 
> think all taxes are bad, that's one thing, but to try to distinguish 
> between "double taxation" and not is just silly, because there's not 
> really any such thing as "non double taxation".  I think Chris' point 
> was obvious to most people.  The question of whether "double taxation" 
> is good or bad is a non sequitur that you introduced into the 
> discussion.  If you want to argue that all taxes are bad, then fine, but

> "double taxation" is just a red herring, which was clearly Chris' point.

Normally I hate it when people put words in my mouth, but
Randolph nailed it. Well said.

cb