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"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
The answer is the flat tax. I used to be in favor of that but the problem is that a flat tax is, in fact, a regressive tax. Yeah, I know everyone pays the same percentage but $200.00 a year to someone making $10,000.00 a year is still a lot while $2000.00 a year to someone making a hundred grand really isn't that much. A national sales tax is a much more-better idea. You buys lots of stuff? You pays The Man. This would also encourage folks to save instead of spending more than they make. . . . Aw hell, I wasn't gonna even reply to this silly thread but couldn't help it. I'm going to bed before I get wound up. -- Jim Fisher |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:19:15 -0500, Jim Fisher wrote:
"Otis Winslow" wrote in message The answer is the flat tax. I used to be in favor of that but the problem is that a flat tax is, in fact, a regressive tax. Yeah, I know everyone pays the same percentage but $200.00 a year to someone making $10,000.00 a year is still a lot while $2000.00 a year to someone making a hundred grand really isn't that much. A national sales tax is a much more-better idea. You buys lots of stuff? You pays The Man. This would also encourage folks to save instead of spending more than they make. . . . Aw hell, I wasn't gonna even reply to this silly thread but couldn't help it. I'm going to bed before I get wound up. Well, even with a flat tax, the IRS wouldn't be going anywhere. At best, it would be greatly reduced in size. For those that are below the poverty line, other ammendments, refunds and services can be provided to offset anything they paid as part of a flat tax program. In fact, many of these services are already available today. I've heard this argument used time and time again. It never holds water. A flat tax system is by far, the most fair and easiest methods of collecting taxes. Even if I had to pay any extra two or three hunded dollars a year in taxes, it would easily be offset by the amount that I already pay in having my taxes done. Last I heard, if a flat tax program were to be implemented, the average American would pay +-500 dollars within what they currently pay. That means some of us would actually do better. Others would do slight worse. In either case, not having to pay for taxes services would certainly help to offset the difference. |
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Well, even with a flat tax, the IRS wouldn't be going anywhere.
The IRS isn't the enemy. They are a necessary and legal part of our government. The enemy is Congress, who keeps passing absurdly more intricate and inscrutable tax laws, which must then be incorporated and interpreted by the IRS. Congress is supposedly made up of our representatives, but I haven't seen much evidence of that in my lifetime. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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![]() "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:7dOhc.2204$_L6.387680@attbi_s53... Well, even with a flat tax, the IRS wouldn't be going anywhere. The IRS isn't the enemy. They are a necessary and legal part of our government. They may be legal but they're certainly not necessary, especailly their Gestapo mentaility ("We're always right even when were wrong") The enemy is Congress, who keeps passing absurdly more intricate and inscrutable tax laws, which must then be incorporated and interpreted by the IRS. Which plays the bully with such relish. Congress is supposedly made up of our representatives, but I haven't seen much evidence of that in my lifetime. True enough but every time some Rep tries to reign in the IRS they get stepped on. |
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![]() "Jim Fisher" wrote in message . .. "Otis Winslow" wrote in message The answer is the flat tax. I used to be in favor of that but the problem is that a flat tax is, in fact, a regressive tax. Yeah, I know everyone pays the same percentage but $200.00 a year to someone making $10,000.00 a year is still a lot while $2000.00 a year to someone making a hundred grand really isn't that much. The flat tax (which I'm against) doesn't even kick in until you make like $30K. A national sales tax is a much more-better idea. You buys lots of stuff? You pays The Man. This would also encourage folks to save instead of spending more than they make. . . . Aw hell, I wasn't gonna even reply to this silly thread but couldn't help it. I'm going to bed before I get wound up. Good idea. :~) BTW, I heard on the radio that something like one-fourth of households now pay NO taxes whatsoever (aside from local)...so who are the parasites? |
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![]() "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... The flat tax (which I'm against) doesn't even kick in until you make like $30K. BTW, I heard on the radio that something like one-fourth of households now pay NO taxes whatsoever (aside from local)...so who are the parasites? Everyone should pay something. From the first dollar. There should be no parasites. As for a consumption tax .. it's a great idea. But would be a night mare to enforce and I think the resources required to chase it down and enforce it would offset the reduction in govt size from implementation of a flat tax. People would just pay cash and barter to avoid it like they avoid sales tax. However .. both of these methods are far superior to the current one. |
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![]() "Otis Winslow" wrote in message .. . "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... The flat tax (which I'm against) doesn't even kick in until you make like $30K. BTW, I heard on the radio that something like one-fourth of households now pay NO taxes whatsoever (aside from local)...so who are the parasites? Everyone should pay something. From the first dollar. There should be no parasites. As for a consumption tax .. it's a great idea. But would be a night mare to enforce No moreso than sales tax already is. Even more, there is much less that can be manipulated via "interpretations". and I think the resources required to chase it down and enforce it would offset the reduction in govt size from implementation of a flat tax. People would just pay cash and barter to avoid it like they avoid sales tax. Only commodities (primarily) can be bartered. One last thought: The US existed for it's first 125 years without an IRS, and with only excise taxes. We started to rapidly lose our liberties and privacy when the Income Tax and the IRS came into being in 1913 (just in time for World War One). |
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