Michael McKelvy wrote:

"George M. Middius" wrote in message
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I took a spin over to some of the overtly political Usenet groups. Amid
the usual namecalling, baseless generalizing, chest-thumping, and
exultations of stupidity, I educed a common theme among the retrograde
claque. They all think taxes are unjust, unnecessary, immoral, etc.
Similar to the braying we see on RAO from certain people whom I don't
need to name because we all know who you are.

One thought that keeps surfacing is that the government "takes" money
from people who "earned" it, and these citizens hate that.


Yes. Unless there's a voluntary tax collection method.

It's called zero tax on inheritence or wages, but a 30-40% tax
on sales other than basic items(food, clothes, gas, etc).

It works. You are frugal and invest your money, you pay less taxes.
You but that new jet plane or SUV, though, and you end up paying
some tax on it.

Btw, the most onerous one of all is the death tax. It keeps the
middle-class fomr gining wealth. The wealthy manage to dodge
this with a few simple but little-know methods.