----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: " jan matthieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "futurework" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Luckie Duckie Article
> Jan, > > You said: > > " If someone is clever enough to make people want what they don't need, why > would that be 'rewarded' with tax exemption?" > > Why do you have such a poor opinion of people? If they buy something it's > because they want to buy it. How do you know they don't need it? If you > have a problem, learn how to resist people trying to sell you something. > You must be very young and inexperienced, probably know nothing about marketing, publicity and politics, have never participated in a meeting with spin doctors, journalists, campaign managers, car or video game designers, and so on, or you wouldn't write such absolutely naïve things. Of course people buy what they think they want. The whole billion dollar industry of publicity is based on making people believe they want your product and not something else. They want to be able to be 'connected to the world' at all times, be, for example, able to check where their child, husband, lover, grandmother is at any time, etc... Look at a child and see how you can make it want something. Many people are big children. How do I know they don't need it? Except for the vital needs of survival, all other 'needs' are culturally conditioned. > If someone does for people what they want, it seems ridiculous to fine them > for doing so. Paying taxes is not a fine. Maybe you should take a course in house holding. A government cannot function without means, those means come from collecting taxes. A society cannot function without them. Didn't they teach you that in secondary school? > Yet, we do so. You work harder - you get taxed more. So work less. Why would you want to work so hard? Relax. Enjoy life. Think less about money. Work for living instead of living for working. You > study so you can use your skills and knowledge to give greater service to > others - you get taxed more. You only get taxed more when you earn more; so you are getting a good life from all your great service to others. If you are having a very low income, you don't pay taxes. There is also a lot one can do to give service to others which is given free and whoever uses his skills to give great service to others without asking a lot of money in return, will not be 'fined' with taxes either. You keep your house in good condition - you > get taxed more. Where do you live? Over here we can deduce a lot of loans for buying a or building a house from our taxes. You get deductions and subsidies for isolating it better and so on. Nobody over here gets taxed to keep his house in good condition. Here is Belgium. > You let the house degrade into a slum - you get taxed less. Over here you get fined > > It's a silly system - also it's unfair to the people who do most for us. What is a silly system? > > Still, you have it right. You refer a tax exemption as a reward. Which > implies you realize that a tax is a penalty. No I did not, I wrote 'rewarded', not rewarded, to make a point as you seem to mistakenly believe taxes are a punishment and should be abolished. Jan > > Harry > > ------------------------------------------------- > > jan wrote: > > >From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "futurework" > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:48 PM > >Subject: Re: Luckie Duckie Article > > > > > > > Ray, > > > > > > I looked for this but couldn't find it. Thanks for the post. > > > > > > You know my point of view. If someone earns $1 million by supplying the > > > people with what they want, he shouldn't be taxed at all. It's potty to > > > penalize someone for doing good. > > > > > > >Why would anyone see paying taxes as a punishment? It is the duty of every > >citizen to contribute to the common good. Of course 'supplying the people > >with what they want' must be taxed. Everyone has his wants and needs, and > >the trick is to make people want what you are providing them. If someone is > >clever enough to make people want what they don't need, why would that be > >'rewarded' with tax exemption? > > > >Jan Matthieu > > > > > ****************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of LA > Box 655 > Tujunga CA 91042 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > ******************************* > >
