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To: SC_Pete

Flat tax.

Russia does it, 13% of all your annual income = your tax owed

Somehow it works - and it’s simple, so there’s no need for thousands of deductions (and a big bureaucracy)


18 posted on 11/19/2013 8:49:04 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

The irony of Russia’s flat tax is that the oligarchy had the power to impose it. They realize, just as the Heritage Foundation, that a simple flat tax will spur economic growth. Unfortunately, OUR oligarchy of career politicians, crony capitalists, media elites, and leftist professors all benefit from the complexity of the tax code. Farmers, manufacturers, pharmas, health care, solar, oil—the list is endless. Incumbency is the single most corrupting influence in our entire political system. Term limits is the only answer.


25 posted on 11/19/2013 8:57:44 AM PST by SC_Pete
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To: canuck_conservative

what we have now started as a flat tax...

abolish it and institute the fair tax, where the states collect the revenue and the feds have to petition for a percentage.


42 posted on 11/19/2013 9:40:58 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: canuck_conservative

That still makes some an economic slave; does not encompass ALL peoples (IE: still those w/ no skin in the game); and a few other niggling peeves....

Return to what worked for ~150 years


50 posted on 11/19/2013 10:26:33 AM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: canuck_conservative

You MUST still allow the government to examine all your financial records to prove that you don’t have any hidden income. What part of SLAVERY don’t you understand?


54 posted on 11/19/2013 12:03:20 PM PST by Scarlet Pimpernel (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?)
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To: canuck_conservative

Nope. No flat tax either. Watch the film Freedom to Facism by the late Aaron Russo.
Eliminate the income tax and the economy might start hopping and jumping.


59 posted on 11/19/2013 4:59:36 PM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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