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[Lionel Peterson]

--- Chris Hedemark <chris at yonderway.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 10:03 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
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> > The worst thing that
> > ever happened was the decision to do "payroll deductions", so that
> > taxes are "invisible". If people actually had to write checks out
> > of their bank accounts to cover their state & federal taxes, they
> > would learn to demand better of their government...
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> I agree.  When I lost my job last year and started independent 
> consulting, I realized just how bad it was.  Now I take my own taxes 
> out, put them in a separate account where it sits and I can't touch
> it, and have to send obscene amounts of money to the gummint every
> quarter.

Exactly, the issue (for me) is passive payment vs. active payment...

Lionel

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Lionel

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