[OneWingedShark]

Horrid. We don’t want a ‘progressive’ scale, we want (and for Justice’s sake, need) a flat applies-equally-to-everyone tax.

[wizard1961]

“We don’t want a ‘progressive’ scale, “

I want to be sure you realize the “progressive” part applies to giving bigger corporations a bigger reason to hire people in the US.

It does not target “the rich” but instead gives fortune 500 companies incentive to hire in the US. Thanks

[sportutegrl]

I read somewhere that if you want less of something, tax it, and more of something, subsidize it. What if we were to give a single mother of one child a set amount, more than enough for 3 children, but if she got pregnant again, then take 1/3 away. Each subsequent pregnancy results in a cut in benefits. I wonder what would happen.

Similarly, what if we taxed higher incomes at a lower rate than lower incomes. Would that drive people to make more money, I wonder. I just propose these as experiments for one state to be a test to see what would happen.