[net.taxes] More Earmarking Taxes

pvl@houxh.UUCP (P.LAMASTER) (11/03/83)

  There's an aspect of earmarking taxes that I haven't yet seen addressed.
It's not clear to me that a given activity should receive funding in
direct proportion to the importance I give it.  Some things inherently
cost more than others and would need a higher degree of funding to sustain
a comparable level of activity.  It would be too easy for "the people"
to mandate that a given level of money be given to a project when the
project couldn't usefully absorb that much.  The result would be akin to cancer
research: (hope I don't step on toes here) work that wasn't related
would be advertised as such so funding could be gotten.
  Pete LaMaster NJ ..ihnp4!houxh!pvl (201)949-0040