Re: Why I Pay Too Much in Taxes

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Sun, 5 May 1996, Alan Horowitz wrote:

> didn't the feudal vassels only pay 33% ?

Actually, no.  When I used to edit a magazine, I commissioned an
article about how much "tax" slaves, serfs, etc. paid.  That is,
how much of what they produced, did they get to keep; how much
went to their masters.  The surprising, cross-cultural answer my
researcher/writer found was that they got to keep everthing they
produced except 5-10%.  That's a lot better, percentage-wise,
than for modern "tax slaves."


 S a n d y

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