Taxes: First do no harm
is a fundamental maxim of medical practice, a phrase that can be translated as "First do no harm, and above all do no harm. That phrase should apply also to tax policy. If taxes have to exist, and understanding that they are taking people's money by force to redistribute political between interests that the legitimate owner of the money might not contribute on a voluntary and peaceful, "taxes should be governed by that principle.
That is why double taxation, taxation beyond the ability to pay tax, and other practices of this sort should be banned, fought and even punished, and therefore the health of the tax system should be measured more by the neutrality of those who by their ability to satisfy particular interests.
It is therefore very fitting that the Constitutional Court declared null the tax on snuff products, same as constiuĂa double taxation.
The photo is owned by the Museo Popol Vuh and depicts a man smoking in a glass of the classical period and the lowlands.
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