[ale] OT: Taxing issues

[Joseph A Knapka]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it be nice if we just had a nationwide
> > 20% sales tax, and ditch the IRS?
> 
> There is no more Constitutional authority for a nationwide sales tax than
> there is for what we have now...

Um. Er. How about Clause 1 of Section 8, where it says
"Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes"?
And the income tax was added to the Constitution by
Amendment 16; people actually had to ratify that,
you know.

In deference to the gentleman from ZapMedia, back to
the topic: wouldn't it be cool if there were mailing-
list software (that was open-source, and ran on
Linux) that would let you create temporary mailing
lists for subthreads like this? Does such a thing
exist? I'm imagining a scenario where anyone could
reply to a message with a special flag in the
Subject: that causes the listserver to generate
a temporary list and auto-subscribe everyone
who's contributed to the thread. It would then
mail the list address to the original list, and
then people who want to follow the OT subthread
could continue to do so by subscribing to the
temp list. Temp lists would cease to exist after
no one posts to them for some time.

Cheers,

-- Joe
  Using open-source software: free.
  Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.

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