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Originally Posted by OldJeff
What would be fair, how about the same 15% from those making 1 dollar, up to those making 50 billion dollars, that would be fair, anything else is punitive to those that are successful.
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Absolutely agreed. The value of a dollar is a dollar. Why should anyone's dollars be valued differently just because they earn more or less of them?
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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links
FUCKING ZERO, dude!
Why? Aren't they contributing enough by generating all those fucking jobs, economies of scale, economies of scope, etc?
replace taxes with usage fees
The government should only exist for 3 purposes: provide courts so people don't anally rupture each other on contracts/crack down on crime, military to prevent invasions, and police to keep them from fucking each other up. Outside of that---the govt that governs least is the government that governs BEST.
Lao Tzu said, thousands of fucking years ago: take away government...and morality returns
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Taxes should also be combined with budgeting and controlled spending. The Gov't spends worse than anyone or anything anywhere. When I ran out of money, I dealt with foreclosure and bankruptcy. When the gov't runs out of money (how should they? They know their revenues from taxes! Don't spend more than that!), they just print more! Wish I had a printing machine in my house for times like that!
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Originally Posted by DonovanTrent
Flat sales tax, the time has come.
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A flat tax of some sort. I don't think just a sales tax, but more like a transaction tax. Sometimes money is moved that has nothing to do with a sale. Depending on how it is moved and who it is moved to, some of those scenarios could be taxed as a transaction.
No deductions, no adjustments, no anything. If you get a dollar from me, the gov't gets whatever the percentage is. I don't care if you have employees, I don't care how much you have to spend on an office, whatever. That's your problem. Why get deductions on it? Corporations are taxed differently than persons who are taxed differently than other persons that make more or less??? WTF? Simplify it. If the dollar moves from entity to entity for an exchange of purpose, tax that. No loopholes. Betcha our debt would be paid off in a matter of a few years.