[Peace-discuss] taxes for school

[Jenifer Cartwright]

MAYBE???

--- On Thu, 10/23/08, LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at ADVANCENET.NET> wrote:

From: LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at ADVANCENET.NET>
Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] taxes for school
To: "'John W.'" <jbw292002 at gmail.com>, "'C. G. Estabrook'" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
Cc: "'Peace Discuss'" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 12:49 PM








Maybe in this country (and even in the industrialized world) we have gotten too fat and really need less of everything -  including lower standards of living, conspicuous consumption, businesses whose focus is on producing profits and not good and services, employment at routine bureaucratic “glass bead” types of jobs which service and remedy problems of our own making and design ( accountants, lawyers, CEOs, advertising and PR departmental personnel, etc. come to mind).  
 

From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of John W.
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:01 PM
To: C. G. Estabrook
Cc: Peace Discuss
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] taxes for school
 
 

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
Income inequality has grown at an increasing rate for years. We must demand a
tax program that redistributes wealth in a more equitable fashion.

If you tax something, you get less of it. Tax (disparate) wealth, not income or
consumption. --CGE


The counter argument, of course, is that if you tax business you get less of it, which means fewer jobs, etc.

There's no "right" answer, especially in this global marketplace with no sense of community or mutual accountabiity.  Just about everyone wants to arrogate the assets to himself/herself, and pass the liabilities on to someone else.  This recent bailout is only the most glaring and hypocritical example of it.

John Wason


 



Karen Medina wrote:




 

it increases the cost of clothing, school supplies, toiletries and other basic items.

Yeah, that is another part I dislike. The families with more people in school
would pay more tax.

We all benefit from educating the young. WE ALL benefit.

We all need to invest in educating the children, and we all need to be offended when the education system is broken.

-karen medina
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