In a message dated 12/4/02 1:14:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually it would be interesting to hear someone delinate a clear > distinction between taxation on money and taxation in kind.
There is no clear distinction. Money is a medium, and the underlying reality is goods exchanging for other goods. If you have a ticket for a show which costs $5 plus $1 in tax, the tax is not really on the ticket, but on the show. Fred Foldvary >> I'm inclined to think there is no clear distinction, which is why I asked the original author of the comment (js I believe) to provide one. Still I must admit that there does seem to be, on some emotional level, a difference among having one's goods confiscated, being forced to perform manual labor or other services not of a sexual nature, and being forced to perform sexual services. Without being able to draw any clean lines of distinction myself, I just not that the second seems more invasive than the first, and the third more in vasive than the second. David
