>LOL, You really think that you are better off when taxes are low? That is the stupidest remark I ever heard. Learn some economics and learn that the lower the taxes, the poorer joe average. Income taxes dropped from 50% to some 38% a few years ago up here. Do you really think I have more to spend? Hahaha. I wish it was so. You're beeing tricked, by a very simple economic rule. Well let me tell you. Low taxes is great if you've got an awfull lot of money, but bad if you just have barely enough to feed your family.
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>In a free (or even semi-free) market economy, lower taxes across the board provide more benefits than perceived problems and inequities.
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>Since you argued that someone "learn some economics", you yourself may want to read some of the material of the Austrian school, which provides some of the best arguments for a free market economy.
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>Kevin

Well, Kevin, I have to disagree with you. We had a government here in Ontario that lowered taxes and all it did was cause the municipalities to start charging for things that they never charged for before. The money to pay for things has to come from somewhere, and if taxes don't pay enough, then other ways of getting money out of my pocket come into play.

You'd expect that if taxes go down, prices will drop. They don't. They go up anyway. Then you get more toll roads, and higher fees for everything from license plate renewals to per bag garbage pick-up.

The government spends x dollars this year and x+ next year. Lower taxes just mean new or higher fees elsewhere. When Reagan lowered taxes in the U.S., iirc, your debt and deficits grew.

Even the guy who invented Reaganomics on the back of a napkin retracted his previous extolling of its virtues later on.

Unless the country has a huge pile of money that they don't need for anything else, lowering taxes just never seems to work.

In general, a true free market economy just doesn't happen. Greed forestalls it, and a few people get very wealthy to the detriment of many. In a true free market economy, competition should make things easier, but how often have you seen that? If a gas station owner tries to be truly competitive by keeping his prices lower, he gets frozen out because the big companies won't sell to him. He has to toe the line in order to stay in business. You get stuff like Nike selling shoes for $200.00 that cost them 7 cents to make in some third world country.

The point is that this is the way the world works, and lowering taxes usually just makes it worse. The more the greedy have, the more they want, and academic arguments mean nothing in real life.