[ale] OT: Taxing issues

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Apr 23 20:37:23 EDT 2002


I just set a filter on "OT: Taxing issues" to dump all of this traffic
to a new OT:ale folder in evolution.

:)

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 18:08, 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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