A consumption tax is unfair to the poor and beneficial to the rich who pay a far lessor portion of their income in consumption.
A flat tax is the fairest form of taxation. Everyone paying a fixed percentage of their income irregardless of how much they consume.
My only stipulation would be the first $30,000 of income be tax free. This helps those that are at the very bottom and close to the bottom since that deduction applies to everyone’s income, as you gain more income it becomes less of a percentage of your overall income.
I also think that there should be an amendment limiting the overall tax burden on citizens say at 30% (just picking a number here). Everything has its order of precedence so say Federal Government gets it’s take first then State, County, city/village in that order.
Somewhere, somehow we have to permanently limit the governments on how much they can tax us. The Constitution’s purpose was for limiting the government (despite what they tell you) and so that would be a good place to put this.
You have been reading far to much leftist propaganda!
The working poor currently pay the most regressive of all taxes on the very first dollar of their income in the form of payroll taxes. That would not happen with the sales tax and they would be in control of ALL of their income.
Secondly, the truly rich can today, under the income tax, order their lives in such a way that they can live like kings consuming like crazy while paying very little if any “income” tax.
Our founders were very learned men and every one of them felt that excises on articles of consumption, i.e. sales taxes, were the way to go.
The income tax comes to us straight out of the Communist Manifesto in the section dealing with how they should take over developed countries.
Can you guess which side of that argument I’m going to come down on?
The problem with a flat tax based on income is that it's no damn business of the government to know what a person earns. The sooner we get them out of our paychecks, the better. Imagine taking home ALL the income you earn.
Everyone needs to pay something - keeps citizens on the same side - the side of keeping government small and efficient.
Actually they don't.
Because of the exemptions written into the Flat Tax the same problem in the current code exists with a Flat Tax
It still divides Americans into tax payers and tax spenders.
The Consumption tax eliminates that divide by making everyone have skin in the game.
Currently tax hikes are hidden inside the thousands of changes in the Tax code made every year. They are passed off as "a business tax" or "making the rich pay"
You cannot hide those tax hikes with a consumption tax. Since everyone pays, everyone knows any tax hike effects them personally