From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:07:41 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and done (fwd)
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At 8:56 PM -0500 11/10/98, Jim Choate wrote:
>Forwarded message:
>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:00:44 -0500
>> From: Petro <petro@playboy.com>
>> Subject: Re: most of what govts do can be done by business, and done
>>  better (Re: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force)
>
>> 	Roads are the easiest (assuming a government model) things to apply
>> road use taxes to, simply tax gasoline, oil, and tires. Scale your tire tax
>> based on weight and apply it to bicycles as well, then everyone (execpt
>> peds) who uses pays.
>
>Screw that, tax the shoes.

	Ok, just do it in proportion to the weight rating, and the road usage.
--
"To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather nave, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html

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