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Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Go strictly fair tax. The more you purchase, the more you pay in taxes. No IRS, no liberal busybodies, just automatic deposits into government accounts after purchases.Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Flat tax.
Does our taxation system need an overhaul - and if so - which system could realistically take its place.
Go strictly fair tax. The more you purchase, the more you pay in taxes. No IRS, no liberal busybodies, just automatic deposits into government accounts after purchases.
While its a better solution, its still technically unfair because some people are paying more for the same services. For example, if you simplify govt down to providing everyone equally with security and justice, then everyone should pay equally for that service. As in everyone pays the same amount for water for example, regardless of how rich or poor you are (unless your poor and get subsidies, but you get the point).
Actually the rich use much less government services and thus should pay much less. They tend to use private services which are more effective. We should have regressive tax rates that go to zero right around the upper middle class. Moreover, when the rich pay for private schooling, protection, etc., they should get a tax refund.
True, but I was just going on an ideal where govt services benefit everyone roughly equally.
That's just bleeding heart liberalism. I say if I have to pay a million USD in taxes and some low-life minimum wage earner doesn't have to pay any, then I should get back a million USD in benefits and the minimum wage earner nothing.
Yep - that's the real catch if you decide to forego deductions.The problem with both of those is how you define income.
Yep - that's the real catch if you decide to forego deductions.