tomas writes: > To me, it's just a thinly veiled way of moving things to a flat-tax > scheme, for the benefit of the rich (yes, I know about the official > rationale) Don't you mean a head tax? "Flat tax" usually refers to a tax that is a fixed percentage of all income (or of all expenditures, which comes to the same thing). -- John Hasler jhasler@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA