[ale] OT: Taxing issues

[Jim Philips]

I just set up a blog and this seems like a good subject for discussion. I'll 
send around some invites later this evening. I mean, what good is blog if you 
can't have a flaming good discussion of politics?

On Tuesday 23 April 2002 06:08 pm, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> 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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