[Peace-discuss] A Voluntary Tax to Help Pay for the War in Iraq

[John W.]

At 01:05 AM 12/12/2007, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:

>Why don't we just allow the corporations to fund it, since they stand to 
>lose big bucks if the rest of us don't.

Ah, because they're not headquartered in the United States any more, so 
they don't have to pay any taxes at all.  It's OUR obligation as individual 
taxpayers to give the corporations whatever they want, so that they'll be 
kind enough to continue selling us their products and services without 
which we could not exist.

John Wason



>Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
>
>Obey should make his proposal voluntary. With more than 130 million 
>returns expected next year, if the average contribution is $3400, we 
>should be in good shape.
>
><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/a-voluntary-tax-to-help-p_b_76070.html>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/a-voluntary-tax-to-help-p_b_76070.html
>
>http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/10/104256/07/889/420159
>
>--
>Robert Naiman
>Just Foreign Policy
><http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/>www.justforeignpolicy.org
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