Thanks for sharing your point of view... This is getting fun... :D LOL Where are you from? Cheers, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, the= n each of us will have two ideas." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only thing necessary to the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke) On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 07:50, Lindy Mayfield wr= ote: > If I have an apple and I sell it to you, then i have to pay taxes on the > money you gave me, then you sell the apple to someone else, then you pay > taxes, then they sell it, they pay taxes, and they sell it back to me the= n > more taxes. I make make apple cider and sell that to you, then I go to j= ail > or get a huge fine for selling bootleg alcohol because, yes, I didn't pay > the booze tax. > > I once read somewhere that trading the apple for a pear is not legal. > Bartering. Bypassing all taxes. I don't know if that is true or not, an= d > I'm not smart enough to know how to check. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .