[PEN-L:33768] Re: Re: Bush Administration On The Poor: Pay More T axes!

["Michael Hoover" <hooverm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> mpollak@xxxxxxxxx 01/11/03 14:53 PM >>>
>On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Devine, James wrote:
>> As Michael Pollak knows, this is much the same as >> Thomas Hobbes'
>> argument (in LEVIATHAN). If I remember correctly, >> Hobbes was more in
>> favor of progressive taxation

>I knew my argument was Hobbesian, but I actually >don't remember where
>Hobbes talks specifically about progressive >taxation.  Do you have a cite?
>I'd love to reread that part.
>Michael

hobbes posited consumption tax, he held that folks
should pay taxes according to what they
take from "common pot" - his phrase - rather
than what they leave in it...  h also comments
that such tax prevents luxury of private waste
from defrauding commonwealth...

away from my books at moment but check chapter
30 of leviathan which addresses office of
sovereign...   michael hoover