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to provide his seasoned and professional perspective we are joined and honored to be joined by richard wolffe a professor emeritus in economics at the university of metro fears that and her professor thank you again for being with us i'm very grateful for your time is there a perfect tax a tax that is really fair and provides good for all the people. i doubt it i think that taxes have been with us for a long time and that they are basically a way that we hold ourselves together as communities. taxes are a recognition that some things are better done if we pool our resources together and if we go you know individually let me just give you the simplest examples if we want to have a lovely wooded area in our community to have picnics to go with our children we could each strider somehow i maintain a plot of wooded land but the absurdity of the expense is silly and so we get together pooling our resources so that we can have a central park in the middle of your own or a prospect park in brooklyn or a golden gate park in san francisco that we can all enjoy and so we all kick in a little bit of mon