[Vision2020] Being fair and even

[lfalen]

Ralph

I did not delete it. I usually do not get on the internet on the weekend. Sunday night our daughter from Orifdino called. She had a horse that was colicing. We took some Banamine to her and then took her to The  Lewiston Vet Clinic. We did not get to bed until 4:00 monday morning (for those that love horses, it comes home today). I only spend from one to two hours a day on the internet and am not on it at all during the week. I have other things to do than camp on the internet all day.
Roger

-----Original message-----
From: Ralph Nielsen nielsen at uidaho.edu
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:42:23 -0700
To: vision 2020 Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Being fair and even

> 
> [Vision2020] Being fair and even
> 
> Instead of answering my previous question you deleted it. Here it is  
> again:
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> 
> Roger,
> 
> By "fair tax" you  mean a sales tax that penalizes the poor, who must
> spend most of their income, from month to month, just to keep going.
> 
> Two years ago the Idaho legislature raised the sales tax by a full
> 20%, and you call that a "fair tax"?
> 
> Ralph
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> 
> Why should people be taxed only on what they spend? Taxing a poor  
> person on 85-90% of his income while a rich person is taxed on only  
> 1-2% of his income is fair? It sounds perverse to me.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
> 
> Kai Eiselein fotopro63 at hotmail.com
> Fri Aug 22 22:01:27 PDT 2008
> 
> All taxes are unfair to some portion of the population.
> 
> A national sales tax is the most fair of all for the simple reason  
> that people are only taxed on what they spend.
> 
> 
> 
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