[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally posted by transplant99@Sep 17 2005, 06:25 PM
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He doesnt pay taxes on his salary? What?

So because he is an Albertan who gets paid to fill an elected duty, and that pay comes from those that elected him to do that duty....he isnt a taxpayer?

You are one confusing guy.

A quick quote from Making Economic Sense by M. Rothbard because I am too confusing to make sense:

And that is: contrary to carefully instilled myth, politicians and bureaucrats pay no taxes. Take, for example, a politician who receives a salary of, say, $80,000; assume he duly files his income tax return, and pays $20,000. We must realize that he does not in reality pay $20,000 in taxes; instead, he is simply a net tax-receiver of $60,000. The notion that he pays taxes is simply an accounting fiction, designed to bamboozle the citizenry into believing that he and the rest of us are on the same moral and financial footing before the law. He pays nothing; he simply is extracting $60,000 per annum from our pockets.

The same principle, too, applies to sales or property or any other tax. Bureaucrats and politicians do not pay them; they are simply subtracted from the net transfer to themselves from the body of taxpayers.