Posted by Jost on August 8, 2006, at 21:51:45
In reply to Re: cost of drugs, posted by kylenn on August 8, 2006, at 20:56:08
Kylenn,
I disagree with most of your economic and moral philosophy, as well as your theory of government.
One thing I noticed particularly is that you have certain ideas about what are and are not luxuries, which you think the government should enforce.
If nothing else, that sort of governmental intrusion into personal decision-making at the level of specificity that you suggest, and along the lines that you suggest, would involve a very coercive society.
Much more coercive than just having a tax system with certain percentages for certain income levels.
Also, it's not possible to theorize about how to organize a tax system without a well-developed sense of the budgetary demands that you have, the promises you've made that people have relied on in making all sorts of decisions, and many other factors that I'm not sure you've considered.
Jost
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