[GJM] [Intertax] What Would YOU Really Do?

[robert searle]

--- robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear Arun Kumar,
>             I am sure you are right that there are
> wealthy people who  do still have some degree of
> social conscience. However, as we can see there a
> significant proportion who might be termed in your
> words..homo-economicus.
> 
> R.Searle.
> 
> 
>        Thank you for your response. 
> --- Arun Kumar <arunkumar at mail.jnu.ac.in> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Robert,
> > Sorry to respond late but I thought now that you
> may
> > be going off the radar screen of this network, I
> > should respond to your admittedly provocative
> > question.
> > 
> > If I was a homo-economicus, I would avoid as much
> > tax as I could.
> > 
> > But is this a normal state of human existence?
> > People have a social conscience and have a value
> for
> > equity. This makes them feel they are civilized
> > beings and money is not the end all of existence
> of
> > Man. We are not mere automatons. Social existence
> is
> > important to most other wise they would ship out
> to
> > the Himalyan caves.
> > 
> > Hence most would pay taxes that are equitable. So
> > would I. What is equitable is decided by different
> > societies differently.
> > 
> > In fact some of the people that society has valued
> > the most in history have been those who have
> > voluntarily sacrificed, like, Buddha, Christ,
> > Prophet Mohammad (and in recent times) Gandhi and
> > Mandela.
> > 
> > Are you arguing that as soon as one starts getting
> > rich one loses one's social conscience and
> therefore
> > starts becoming uncivilized?
> > 
> > Hope you would take your question to the
> > philosophical plane to find an answer. Each one of
> > us have to face our own conscience in these
> matters.
> > 
> > With best wishes.
> > Arun Kumar.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk>
> > To: intertax at listen.attac.de
> > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:15:32 +0000 (GMT)
> > Subject: [Intertax] What Would  really YOU do?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> >          If you were a super-rich businessman, or
> > woman would you not want to keep as much of your
> > profits from taxman as possible? Is this not a
> > normal
> > instinct?
> > 
> > I do feel Intertax is very one-sided.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Robert Searle
> > 
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