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Larry Moore  
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 More options Apr 5 2012, 10:15 am
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From: Larry Moore <sshirleyallan1...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:15:04 -0500
Local: Thurs, Apr 5 2012 10:15 am
Subject: Re: -[I]- birthdays
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On 2012-04-04, Lesley Weston <brightly_coloured_b...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 04-03-12 2:13 PM, Larry Moore wrote:
>> http://www.photius.com/rankings/tax_burden_country_ranks_2009.html
>> which is a list produced by (spare the mark,) Forbes magazine
>> and quoted by the CIA Worldbook. You'll see that the Forbes data differs
>> often from that given by the Hayekians; I assume the differences are
>> due to a lack of rigour on the part of the think tanks.

> Yes I saw that when I was searching. It doesn't include all those other
> taxes that I mentioned in the bit you snipped, so it's meaningless.
> Rather like the Consumer Price Index, which doesn't include the cost of
> food or energy when used to calculate the rate of inflation or wage
> increases.

I assume that all government spending has to be covered eventually
by taxes of some name or another. There are times when having a
publicly accountable single payer is the route to take - and there
are times and uses where a regulated market suits.

I suppose having fuel and food not included in the CPI makes it
comparable, year to year.  I don't know if your petrol/gas prices
are spiking like ours will this weekend but we're setting a new
record. I'd hate to be fueling a SUV.

>> Since the US military expenditure is over half the total world's,
>> how and when are they paying for it?

> Maybe that explains the doo-doo they're in now.

> Lesley.

Eventually all chickens will come home to roost.

--
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every
one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not.
Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes


 
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