[taxcontrol]

What say you?

[al baby]

I never send money to the Inland Revenue service I live on the coast

[sten]

new tax structures have been proposed.. but will never be enacted, as those that would make the call benefit from the existing structure far too much.

[The Comedian]

The only way that Karl Marx's graduated income tax will be abandoned by the plantation masters who wield it over us is for us to burn the plantation's treasury to the ground on our way to tarring and feathering the masters themselves.

And then the punishment will begin.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[mandaladon]

I find your ideas very interesting, but I will analyze them carefully in order to make a more educated decision. I think this discussion should be ongoing. I’m not an economist but it would be nice to have as many people with a background on economics to participate.

[Huck]

Representative apportionment - A system where a dollar amount is assigned to a per Senate seat and Per congressional district and the cost is passed to each State. The state is then allowed to use their own tax authority to collect from it's citizens the monies to pay their federal obligation.

This is the best option.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Sure but it will never happen. The IRS is one big gigantic welfare service - giving jobs to people who are guaranteed to vote democrat.

[Hostage]

The research and efforts are complete. What remains is to educate our family, friends and neighbors.

Here’s the cure to both taxes and spending:

http://www.fairtax.org

It acts as a weight scale to spending and requires an annual vote on the one transparent rate. If overweight (spend too much), then get on a diet (cut spending). No pain, no gain.

Any fights over spending will be ongoing neverending. But transparency of a tax rate (H.R. 25) linked directly to spending will at least get all Americans on the same page. As it is now, spending and taxes are two shell games.