I understand double taxation. The issue is spreading out the load to pay the cost of government to as many people as possible. It is the only way to stop (slow down) tax creep.
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You go beyond understanding double taxation, you advocate it!!!!
I paid taxes on unsheltered income for over 40 years and you want to tax it again. And again and again???????
How come no one is advocating a FLAT TAX on income. I’d be for that like white on rice. Trying to speak cleanly here.
“How come no one is advocating a FLAT TAX on income.”
People with no “income” would pay no taxes. That is not fair. Why tax income at all? Why Flat Tax on income. Why not just tax everybody the same? I never understood property tax on assessed value either. Does a million dollar house use four times the civic services of a 250K house? No. So why pay more. This is total Marxist to me.
If I go out and buy $50,000 worth of building materials and pay 6% sales tax that’s $3 grand.
If I store that stuff on a 1 acre lot, and just let it sit, $3,000 is all the wood and wire and shingles will EVER cost me (other than the approximately $12,500 I paid in INCOME taxes on that $50,000 I bought the material with.)
Now if I have an artistic bent, and decide to ASSEMBLE that pile of materials into some kind of ART (provided I can get PERMISSION from the state) it’ll cost me NOTHING, tax wise, for there is no such thing as a statue tax (Dang! By next week there WILL be one! Sorry to all you statue owners out there.).
However, if my artistic sense drives me to construct an actual DWELLING out of that pile of materials, I will get the priveldge of paying PROPERTY TAXES on it, each year, FOREVER!!!!
Ain’t life grand! ;^)