If you support fairness and equality for all, shouldn't you support a flat income tax? (illegal, how much)
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The problem is that the rich spend less of their income meaning they pay less tax overall (due to sales tax). Also tax avoidance is rampant amongst the wealthy so this would mean they end up paying less tax than the poor. I've a friend whos the son of a Baron- he's chuffed because last year his income tax bill amounted to 3% of his earnings.
I suggest we dont tax incomes at all frankly its our money, no tax on tips, incomes, labor of any kind this concept of a income tax is bad for economic liberty and has never been FAIR!!
Reduce the size of government by 50%.
Leave the Social Security TAX and Medicare tax to support those still dependent but give younger people the option to OPT OUT!!! Because SS is and will be broke when younger people retire and government can not be trusted to keep their generations money SAFE!!
3% FEDERAL SALES TAX ON ALL GOODS REPLACES THE INCOME TAX. That is RIGHT 3%!!!! With all the spending we do this creates a better system of revenue for the government. It also is easier to track sales and purchases then it would be deal with the loop holes and nonsense of the IRS and benefits given to those who use the system. Your money is your money no more asking for cash back and other benefits from the government in the forms of "tax breaks and or refunds" to justify your exisitence.
Everyone pays the rich the poor and middle class have to buy something its low enough to keep the government running and not destory any peoples lives.
These numbers of 17% etc and so on are to support overly large government spending habits and shouldnt allowed to continue and over time they will just keep raising the numbers to support the corrupt people in washingon. 3% should be written into the constitution and never be changed or adjusted with out changing the constitution and replace the 16th amendment.
Because a waitress and Bill Gates shouldn't get taxed at the same rate.
Why not? You do understand what a percentage means, right? No one is saying they pay the same amount of dollars in taxes. They pay the same percentage. The rich will still pay far more than the poor under a flat tax but they will pay the same percentage.
Hmmm... another poster who needs to look at the actual data on effective tax rates...
But the very wealthy do not pay the actual rates. They declare their income as capial gains and numerous other avoidance schemes, like moving to monaco for 6 months of the year.
If you're worried about tax rates on the poor, then you could exempt the first $15,000 from being taxed, and then have a flat tax rate on all income above that amount.
And that is exactly how the need for progression is realized, the process begins. Understanding that flat income tax would hurt the poor guarantees that the effect will be gradual with income. So I cut the chase, and support progressive taxation.
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