You miss the big picture. you are sitting here where income taxes are imbedded in the cost of everything made HERE but nothing made elsewhere. You get frustrated that the finished imported products sold in Walmart cost less that what it would cost to buy the raw materials here. There are two partys in the global market that supplies Walmart, domestic that pays all the taxes and imports that don't. You will slowly die of starvation unless that imbalance can be changed.
"-- Taking 50% of my income or 50% of what I spend amounts to the same thing --"
You miss the big picture. you are sitting here where income taxes are imbedded in the cost of everything made HERE but nothing made elsewhere.
You get frustrated that the finished imported products sold in Walmart cost less that what it would cost to buy the raw materials here.
There are two partys in the global market that supplies Walmart, -- domestic that pays all the taxes and imports that don't.
You will slowly die of starvation unless that imbalance can be changed.
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Well put, det dweller...
None of the above 'pro income tax' people can explain ~why~ they want our present insane system to continue.
Could it be that they all have some sort of vested interest in business as usual, and don't care if this Republic is on the road to serfdom? --
Bet on it.
If you want less of something, you should tax it. And what do we do in America?
We tax income. -- We tax investment. -- We tax savings. -- We tax productivity.
Wise words on an "old adage". --
Incredible that such a basic point has been so totally ignored for over two hundred years.
And what would you do with the Fair Tax? Raise the cost of imports by 28%. Gee, thanks for making American products more competitive.