Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Ronnie, Ronnie,... Tax withholdings Message-ID: <970@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 21:18:17 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.970 Posted: Wed Feb 15 21:18:17 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:26:03 EST References: <280@dual.UUCP> <2513@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 21 >> The best thing Congress could do to keep taxes down would be to >> repeal the legislation that allows the IRS to force employers to pay >> income takes on behalf of employees. If everyone had to fork over >> their whole year's taxes in one shot, they'd think a lot harder >> about voting for politicians who promised to spend still more of >> their money. >> Andrew Koenig (rabbit!ark) I doubt it. I imagine the main result would be a slight INCREASE in taxes, because of all the additional trouble the IRS folks would have to go to to get people to pay the taxes which they had already spent up! Of course, the loan industry should favor this proposal -- think of all the money to be made making special April Fool's Day loans at usurious rates to poor planners who have no other way of coming up with the dough on time. --- Prentiss Riddle --- ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle