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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Roads and Taxes (was Re: NEWS: True Costs of )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193612.10633@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:36:12 GMT
- References: <51920@seismo.CSS.GOV> <yjcshr=@dixie.com>
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- In article <yjcshr=@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
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- >Actually Richard, the Constitution was written specifically to prohibit
- >federal income taxes.
- [...]
- >(BTW, has anyone contemplated
- >the fact that the 16th did not repeal the requirement of Article 8, para 1
- >that taxes be uniform? That would sure kill "progressive" [newspeak for
- >'soak the worker, give to poor and gov't tit suckers'] tax schemes.)
-
- Facinating ... Has noone brought a test case on this? It would be
- fun to watch!!
-
- Wonder if 'uniform' would be construed to be 'uniform percent' or
- 'uniform dollars' ...
-
- BTW, has anyone wondered about the Clinton regiem plans for a
- blanket energy tax? Why, if they want to encourage folks to move
- away from imported oil, are the proposing to impose an energy tax
- that is 'uniform' across al energy forms? {nuke, natrual gas, coal,
- oil, hydro, wind, the works ...} Hardly seems like a Democratic
- approach to not tinker with the 'economic incentives' while imposing
- an economy flattening tax ...
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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- 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
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