[Gllug] BBC Open Source

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 16 Jul 2005, Peter Childs wrote:
>David Damerell wrote:
>>On Saturday, 16 Jul 2005, Robert Newson wrote:
>>>James McGuigan wrote:
>>>>1. The money goes directly to the BBC and not into a central pot - more 
>>>>taxes should be like this,
>>>Agreed: Road Tax should go on Roads, Fuel Tax should go on Fuel/Transport
>>And the tax on beer should go to build breweries, I suppose?
>    Hmm Well, Yes, But since drinking causes problems for peoples 
>health, and public behavour the money should be spent on that (ie NHS, 
>Police) Otherwise we would be spending Smokers Tax on building more 
>places to make ciggerates.... Sorry had to you logic just did not work.

Errr, what? Try and follow what I'm doing; pointing out an absurd
consequence of the hypothecation argument. Pointing out another one
does not really show a flaw in my argument.

>indirect taxation (Like National Insurance). I think that taxation of 
>any sort should follow one underling principle, and that is KISS (Keep 
>It Simple Stupid) If you have never heard that principle look it up in 
>pritty much any programming text book.

I think as a general rule you may assume I am familiar with such
expressions. 

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