[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards

[Lionel Peterson]

On May 7, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>  
wrote:

> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 May 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> And they're not involved with every paycheck you get now...?
>>
>> They aren't.
>
> How not?  Income tax?  FICA?
>
> Oh, sure, there isn't a government agent standing there as your  
> paycheck
> gets drawn up making notes in a little black book.

The Gov't collects tax revenue on an honour system, but it verifies it  
against required documentation from employers, banks, etc.

> And there wouldn't
> need to be one standing by at the supermarket checkout counter,  
> either.
>
> Hey, if nothing else, anything that gets rid of the IRS can't possibly
> be all bad.
>
>> Even if they were, most people get far fewer paychecks than they make
>> retail transactions.
>>
>>> And they don't, directly or indirectly, monitor almost every  
>>> dollar you
>>> spend already...?
>>
>> Your reasoning is "The government's already too intrusive by  
>> convention,
>> let's codify it."?
>
> Nope.  Just that I don't think it'd necessarily have to be any worse
> than it already is.

Look at what you just wrote, "let's do it, it won't be any worse" -  
very similar to the other fellow's point...

> In fact, as Lionel points out, the Federal
> government doesn't even have to be directly involved at all.  Let the
> states collect it along with their own sales taxes and pass it - or
> Washington's share of it - on to Washington.  And the smaller that  
> share
> is, the better, I suggest.

I don't think the Gov't could actually do this - the state probably  
can't get involved with the collection of federal taxes, for the same  
reason local police can't enforce immigration or taxation laws.

Sorry,

Lionel