Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Flat Tax

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I just had a thought.

 

If you really want spending to be cut, the first thing that has to happen is take away the automatic deduction system from pay checks. Make those who work for a company do the same thing that those of us who have a business have to do. Pay our taxes quarterly by writing out a check to the government.

 

Once people realize just how much of their money actually goes to the government by feeling the pain of making the payment, you will see spending get under control. But because it is out of site, out of mind, people don't feel the pain of having to write a check and see that money go out.

 

Most people use the tax system as a savings account, how many on this list are looking forward to February and your refund check? You know what the anxiousness of a refund check really is? It is a sign of someone who has never learned to discipline themself enough to save money. Paying more money during the year into the tax system is essentially giving the government an interest free loan.

 

Just a thought really.

 

On 1/5/07, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

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.


--
Thanks
F Vernon Green

-- 
Thanks
F Vernon Green 
_______________________________________________
discussion mailing list
EMAIL:PROTECTED
http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/discussion