Consumption taxes,that is ,sales taxes are likely the fairest.
No income tax;you get what you earn.
No property tax;you get to keep what you buy.A corrollary is that inventory taxes(property) would no longer punish businesses for having on hand a larger quantity of raw materials or goods or even “obsolete” parts.Such things would be determined by supply and demand and the owners’ desires to meet customer needs.Just one example ,utilities could have a larger fuel stockpile to get through transportation disruptions.Nor would sound,but temporarily unused, building be torn down just because it is cheaper than paying taxes.
Sales tax;that takes into account all the government actually need to allow the goods or service to be delivered.Of course the sales tax would have to be fairly high but if government was restricted to the original functions it need not be exoribant.Considereing the total of all taxes now steals about half one’s earnings, a sales tax of 25% would be a relief IF,and only if, there were no other taxes.
If you are frugal in buying your personal wealth will accrue faster than someone who prefers to enjoy his money at once.
Without property tax you need fear a period of unemployent or illness or old age much less since you have not the fear of government taking away your home.
One’s home ought to be a safe refuge.Instead in today’s U.S. and elsewhere, it is a place you may occupy only with the paid-for permission of men with guns who will kill you if you resist eviction.
That sounds harsh but it is what every law eventually comes to;no matter how minor the first “offense” if you do not comply the government can escalate the situation to deadly force.
There was a Congressman (I think he may even have been a Democrat of the old school) who claimed his test for a new law was”would I send a man with a gun to force my mother to comply? “ I can only wish all those making laws thought that way.
Of course my ideas are anathema to the real estate industry which exists to make a big profit on all transfers of land and buildings .Without government -forced transfers of property the real estate industry and agents would see their income drop.And by government-forced I defintely include eminent domain abuses and property sold to pay taxes.There have been many farms sold because a city annexed the land and the farmer simply could not raise a legal crop capable of generating the money to pay city land tax on a cornfield.Government is always about forcing someone to do something.
Much wisdom there. Thanks.
Government is a contract where we have given it permission to force us to do certain things in order to preserve and protect the common good. But in that there is supposed to be justice. (I did not say fairness. There is a difference which is often difficult to describe, but you know it when you see it.)