Posted on 08/11/2015 10:46:09 AM PDT by JOHN W K
Another “compassionate conservative.”
I think it is very wrong that the IRS has any information about anyone, including our family status, children’s names, our income, our place of employment, our investments, etc..etc... This should never have been allowed to happen and should be removed. We, the people, are just giving way too much information and power to government, which is dominated by lifetime government employees, most often democrats.
We will not get rid of the federal tax all at once. Carson actually has a very good plan. Whether a sales tax is better than an income tax I have not decided. If the income tax is at a low rate then that is great. The threat is that years later someone will raise it back up. But the same threat remains with sales tax. Would there be sales tax on homes? What about retired people who have no income but must make some purchases? Or unemployed people. They still must make some purchases. Is it fair to completely remove it from income? I am not sure.
JWK
“Honest money and honest taxation, the Key to America’s future Prosperity“ ___ from “Prosperity Restored by the State Rate Tax Plan”, no longer in print.
And another one down, another one bites the dust...
Is there a link for this, or is it another vanity?
No President will get it all right though I”m not so sure he’s wrong on this. We are at a place in history where we have to stop nitpicking every proposal from a candidate’s mouth and look at who they are.
Obama would not be President if we’d done that.
“Lowering taxes for the very wealthy”? When did that happen? Never?
All I know for sure is, as a middle class American, I’m paying about 50% in taxes. Sales tax, gas tax, road tax, toll tax, license tax, tire tax, federal tax, county tax and soon carbon tax, section 8 tax, travel (milage) tax, global UN tax.
I traced it back to a post on a Ron Paul forum, but no further.
Carson is a newcomer to the GOP like Trump.
But, the post on that forum looks to be the same person who posted it here.
JWK, can you provide a link?
And, from Carson’s website:
“The American People Deserve a Better Tax Code
The current tax code now exceeds 74,000 pages in length. That is an abomination.
It is too long, too complex, too burdensome, and too riddled with tax shelters and loopholes that benefit only a few at the direct expense of the many.
We need wholesale tax reform.
And, we won’t get that from career politicians in Washington. They’re too deeply vested in the current system to deliver the kind of bold, fresh, new reforms that the American people are demanding.
We need a fairer, simpler, and more equitable tax system. Our tax form should be able to be completed in less than 15 minutes. This will enable us to end the IRS as we know it.”
https://www.bencarson.com/issues/tax-reform/
(I want to get rid of the income tax. But, that’s just me.)
I really don’t get this. Carson’s approach is as fair as possible IMO.
But wouldn’t states, to pay their “fair share”—and I’d just love to see how Mississippi, Alabama, and West Virginia would manage to do that, though residents in NY, CA, NJ, and MA would be kicking up their heels—in turn have to tax their own population?
And as to complaints about those unable to pay taxes being unable to vote, given the realities of our population currently, it sounds as if you really would be in favor of giving blacks a 3/5ths vote.
Call it a first step it beats the hell out of what we have now.
How does this proposal deep-six Dr. Carson?
I don’t know. I didn’t start this thread.
JWK
On that I agree completely!
JWK
JWK
“Honest money and honest taxation, the Key to America’s future Prosperity“ ___ from “Prosperity Restored by the State Rate Tax Plan”, no longer in print.
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