Posted on 09/20/2013 9:27:57 PM PDT by TexGrill
Exactly.
The property tax deduction also makes it easier for local governments to keep jacking up property taxes. It should be gone—in tandem with a drop in the overall tax rate.
It wouldn’t be likely to pass, but it wouldn’t cause an instant ‘depression’—in that taxpayers could rechannel all that money to more productive uses.
There’s a debt obligation. Every realistic citizen understands what that means.
Foreign tariffs today are about the equivalent of what county-by-county tariffs would have been two hundred years ago.
Low income people already have skin in the game via high payroll taxes. They also can get more back than what they paid in via EITC, meaning that a symbolic payment of some income taxes (other than payroll taxes which are just another form of ‘income’ taxes) would be just that—symbolic.
That is why the elimination of the income tax and imposition of a national sales tax must be done by amending the constitution. The ability of the federal government to write tax law must be removed. They are simply tyrants. The national sales tax rate will be set by the constitution and that that will be all the federal government gets. They will have to write more business friendly laws if they want more money. This would also apply to the states. To address national emergencies the Feds could raise the rate but only with three quarters of the states approving it. Additionally, property taxes of any type should be constitutionally prohibited. The forgoing is the gist of one of ten or so amendments to the constitution that are needed to protect the people from the mendacity of their would be tyrants.
Yes we must amend the constitution to elimininate the ability of the federal government to write tax law, among a number of other things. My marked up constitution has around ten amendments that are needed to protect us from the tyrants in DC. This includes repeals such as the income tax and returning the election of senators to state legislatures. The only way to do this is through a constitutional convention. Like Mark Levin suggests but the restrictions on the federal government must be far far harsher than he proposes. Sadly, a significant portion of our citizenry and our politicians are no longer virtuous. Our constitution as presently configured cannot deal with this.
Good call - I hate property tax because it essentially denies private ownership of land and housing. You can only rent it as long as you pay the tax.
A lot of us do that all our lives, it damn sure is doable.
It's called responsibility.
Agreed!
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