Ну, теперь всё ясно
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Date: 2005-03-15 07:55 am (UTC)1 day of one Carrier Group patrol == $50 million
1 carrier = $4.5 billion; 1 cruiser = $1 billion, carrier group has many ships.
(we have 12 carriers and one in construction; 4-6 on patrol at any given moment).
How are we going to pay for this without income tax?
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Date: 2005-03-15 12:27 pm (UTC)I don't mind the income tax (although the one we have needs some drastic hacking), but there are other options. Consumption taxes, for example.
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Date: 2005-03-15 01:29 pm (UTC)to match the current revenue, consumption taxes have to be very high, which will encourage tax evasion. evading income taxes is dangerous - it puts one at the risk of persecution (sic!) by IRS. consumption is often a one-time deal, so various under-the-counter schemes will multiply.
taxing luxury items will merely punish the luxury industry because, as we know from econ 101, the tax is paid by the less elastic party.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:27 pm (UTC)The quotes are interesting :-)
Anyhow, there are ways to structure such things.
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Date: 2005-03-16 02:17 pm (UTC)How?!
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Date: 2005-03-18 09:01 am (UTC)