"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article
le.rogers.com,
"Icebound" wrote:

...snip... Republicans
want people to retain more of their earnings. That is, money
doesn't belong to the government

This is a good thing...
... providing that the "retainers" are paying their share of the costs
involved in producing those earnings.

Are they paying their share for feeding, housing, and education of the
workforces that they use? Are they paying their share for repairing the
consequences of any mistakes they make? Are they paying their share of
the
infrastructure costs for the public transportation systems that they use
to
distribute their goods and services?

By the above, I must conclude that you are more in favor of
a user fee basis for taxation rather than a tax on income. Yes?




I am in favor of fairness, simplicity, and in favor of acknowledgement of
the complete costs.

The current mish-mash of taxes by municipal, state, federal
jurisdictions...taxes on property, income, sales, and "other".... AND
user-fees.... has evolved only because stuff keeps getting through the
cracks...industries who pollute but don't clean up... tax-law that favors
one group or industry over another...individuals and corporations with
creative accountants... businesses who fail and are bailed out from
bankruptcy (along with their creditors) ..... and so governments have been
forced to make up the difference through this mish-mash.

I sort of favor a totally transaction-based system. A penny out of every
hundred dollar transaction (or whatever) no matter whether it is a deposit
of income, a payment of your mortage, or a purchase of an ice-cream cone.

It should be reasonably fair.... at least as fair as what you have now....
because the biggest payers to the taxation coffers would be those that
receive the most and buy the most.... and those are probably the ones that
use the infrastructure the most. And it could probably be applied to
offshore transactions that come into or out of the country.

And all the book-keeping is done by the banks and retailers. No forms to
fill out for you and me!


Who has paid for the disposal of all that nuclear waste generated by the
power plants

how about having the users of the power plants pay for that?



That would be nice. But then, that would be the taxpayers and the taxpayers
don't want to pay more taxes. It would be the biggest industries, but then
they have bulk contracts that allow them power for cheap. etc., etc.