From: "Adam Flinton" 

The UK Gov introduced income tax as a temporary measure during the Napoleonic Wars.

One should always beware of "temporary wartime measures". It took
the UK until the 50'es to get rid of ID cards even there were by then no
"enemy aliens".

Adam


"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
message news:3e028b62{at}w3.nls.net...
> We have a quasi national sales tax on selected items - gas, tires, airline
tickets, ammo, etc.  The govt prefers to call'em excise
> taxes and other less inflammatory terms, but they're defacto sales taxes.
>
> The tire tax is a real irritant - as I recall it was enacted during WWII
and was supposed to go away when it ended...yea right.
>
> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:cl050vc4826b8d495i2kn2hbksasfpu9gg{at}4ax.com...
> > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:23:25 -0500, James Adams
> >  wrote:
> >
> > >> "If we take out Social Security, the poor will look
very lightly
> > >> taxed," said Robert S. McIntyre, of Citizens for
Tax Justice, a tax
> > >> research group backed by organized labor.
> > >
> > >And if we then remove sales tax they would really look lightly taxed.
> >
> > We don't have sales tax.
> >
>
>

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