Do you favor the regressive, progressive or flat tax?

[Destructor]

Lock and load one round ZOT ammunition! Backblast area clear? You may fire when ready Kitties.

[cavtrooper21]

Dear JJ,
Sounds like there may be hope for you, but change the moniker. This is not an attempt to infringe your 1st Amnt. right to "free speach" but rather some friendly advice.
Your moniker will rub some folks around here the wrong way, and they'll never forget..
Not that they have good memories, but this site has good arcives.
Have fun
CT21

[Don Corleone]

SKYBIRD SKYBIRD DO NOT ANSWER SKYBIRD SKYBIRD DO NOT ANSWER

Wasn't that "Sky King, Sky King" ???

[Poohbah]

"SKYBIRD" was the broadcast callsign for SAC aircraft. "SKYKING" is the STRATCOM broadcast callsign. I'm a classicist at heart.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

I support NO TAXES and high tariffs....just like the Constitution mandated.

[lobo59]

Every one is so brainashed by the liberal socialist lunatics that the only perfect tax will never be discussed or implemnted. That is our original constitutions taxing system using import and export taxes and no others.

Tax the import of manufactured goods to encourage industry and job creation in this country. Tax the export of our natural resources in their raw state. This further encourages manufacture and industries and jobs for Americans by eliminating the depletion of our wealth base to benefit other nations.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Agreed

[VRWCmember]

Legitimacy comes from democracy, not the law. As such, and electoral process can be considered legitimate if it awards victory to the side which receives the most votes, regardless of the rules (or "laws") in play.

Sorry, that is not true in this country. Electoral processes are legitimate only when they conform to established rule of law and to the U.S. Constitution and the constitution of the state in which the election is conducted. Trying to change the rules midstream (or after the fact) when the results are not to your liking, or complaining that the results don't reflect the popular vote simply amounts to meaningless whining.

The economy will probably benefit just the same, but it will take longer for the number of available jobs to begin increasing again. Plus, the tax cut is many things, but "piddling" is not one of them.

The tax cuts were "piddling" in that (1) they are sunsetted after 10-years at which point the tax rates revert to their previous levels; (2) they were much smaller than needed to get the stimulative effect desired; (3) they did not include eliminating or even significantly reducing the insidious double taxation of dividend income or indexing of capital gains for inflation before taxing the gains.

The US has no significant enemies, only stategic competitors (at the most). No-one of any significance wants to attack the United States

An enemy is an enemy whether you consider that enemy to be significant or not. Radical islamic terrorists declared war on the U.S. on 9/11/01 whether you acknowledge that or not. These terrorists, and the states that harbor or sponsor them, are our enemies -- not "strategic competitors".

[VRWCmember]

Taxing of exports has never been an acceptable tax policy in this country.

[lobo59]

Except in our original constitution, when we ran the government, without deficits on the impost and expost taxes decreed by the founding fathers. Of course this was before the socialists amended the document with our present tax structure.

England wanted America's cheap agricultural products and a market for their expensive manufactured goods and were fighting against factories being set up here before the Revolution. For the same reason friction developed between the North and South here with manufacturing in the north. Look at history, Europe wished to destroy our young nation and wanted the cheap agriculture fron the south and so they supported the confederates.

In the twentieth century the third world rebeled against colonialism because of the exploitation of their wealth of raw materials by Europe and tired of being a market for manufactured goods that could be made more cheaply and efficiently in their own countries. Today we send our wealth overseas and are becoming the new third world. An export tax on raw materials would stem this tide.

[VRWCmember]

U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 9.
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"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."

[Spartano]

I am for FLAT-TAX all the way. And the rate must be 10% as described in the Bible. All these politicians and economists think they are smarter than the big fellow there in Heaven. I advocate for the total elimination of the sales taxes, they are very regressive.

It´s interesting to study the Laffer curve, here I include two sites:
http://www.gmu.edu/jbc/fest/files/Monissen.htm
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/laffercurve.asp