Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Flat Tax

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I just looked up "hyperbole" in the dictionary and there was a little
photo of Vern Green in that entry.

 

Really, I should sue, they never got my permission to use my picture.

Would any respectable physicist endorse Deepak Chopra's views on quantum
mechanics?  Would any respectable psychologist endorse past-lives
regression therapy?  Would any respectable computer scientist have said
that the TRS-80 was a better computer than the Cray-1?  Would any
respectable economist say that the Fair Tax plan is better than what is
currently in place?

 

Well, lets take a look at it this way. You can study data inside and out and gain the knowledge based on that data, but is there any real world application in that closed environment.

 

While it is important to teach proper theory to the students who are studying software architecture, but when that student gets into the real world, the proper way to do something is sometimes tempered by the business requirements. You have to admit Mike that the ideal situation in a lab environment looks quite a bit different when the real world gets involved.

 

Of course, you use someone who is in a similar position as you, a University Professor to base whether or not you support a flat tax, and are all too willing to make your decision on a blanket statement that may or may not be true. There are a number of governments who have put such a tax in place, have you looked at how they are doing? If you have you gave no indication of it. There are a number of equally respectable people, who think a flat tax of some sort is a good thing, but they have to be crack pots to you, because some economics professor says that no "respectable" economist would support a flat tax.

 

You would not accept that position from any of the rest of us on this list, yet you attempt to get away with it by belittling and attacking those who disagree with you. A typical tactic and one that I am all too familiar with.


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