[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards
Phil Stracchino
alaric at metrocast.net
Thu May 7 16:28:46 CDT 2009
Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
>
> " The CORRECT move, but one which it's highly unlikely the government will
> " actually pull the trigger on because too many of their friends benefit
> " from the current situation, is to scrap the entire existing tax code and
> " start over with something that isn't chock-full of loopholes, exceptions
> " and special privileges and penalties. Something like the Fair Tax
> " scheme, for example, which is really quite a clever and elegant scheme.
> " The whole reason the AMT became "necessary" in the first place is
> " because Congress had been stuffing the tax code with loopholes and
> " exceptions for fifty years in return for favors from wealthy campaign
> " contributors who wanted to pay less taxes than their neighbors.
>
> and the fair tax scheme wouldn't be gerrymandered until it was full of
> holes? remember who'd be laying it out and passing it.
I think part of the point of the way the Fair Tax is designed is that it
*can't* be cheated and loopholed in that way, without it being REALLY
BLATANTLY OBVIOUS that someone's cheating. You are familiar with how
it's supposed to work, right...?
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