Re: POLITICS - Governmental Regulations vs. Free Enterprise (was Adjudicating Pollution Disputes)

March 1, 2005

mark robert wrote:

>A lot of the reason small businesses fail is the cost of

>government regulation (codes, standards, licenses, etc).

>

>If you can't understand why gov is inefficient, just look at its

>economic structure. There is enormous pressure to keep costs UP.

>

>-Mark

>

Income taxes are also ridiculously inefficient. It would be so much

simpler and efficient to have a flat consumption tax on items, just like

sales taxes. In the UK the VAT is 17%, I think (but they have way more

taxation than that too). And that may be too high for us, I don't

know. But I do think it's a fairer plan in general. However, many

interests would be out of work under such a simple taxation policy. I

know, I know, some of you will argue taxes are evil. But keeping a mega

bureaucracy afloat with my hard earned money is really not very nice and

could be eliminated to the extent that I wouldn't have to pay as much.

Deanna

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