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Old 11-22-2004, 05:48 AM   #11 (permalink)
moosenose
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Originally Posted by alansmithee

edit- I read over the site, and checked out the FAQ, and from what I could tell, it is still very regressive. They haven't adressed the fact that somebody making $500,000 per year could easily pay the same in taxes as somebody making $100,000. Also, people might not bother doing grocery shopping in foreign countries, but I could easily see the very luxury goods they describe as being what rises the consumption of weathier people being bought out of the country.
Who cares if they buy it out of the country? In order to bring it into the country, they'd still have to pay the customs tax, right?
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