[Gllug] BBC Open Source: OT

[David Damerell]

On Sunday, 17 Jul 2005, Liam Smit 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?
>>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.
>In his defense your logic is way out there e.g. taxing beer to build
>breweries.

No, you still don't get it. Of course that's absurd; but so is "Road
Tax should go on Roads" (not, you'll notice, on the huge externalised
costs of motoring, but on quote Roads unquote).

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