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To: wombtotomb

How about if we all just stop paying our taxes?


11 posted on 12/21/2008 8:09:16 AM PST by nobama08
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To: nobama08
How about if we all just stop paying our taxes?

"Ve have vays to make you pay..."

13 posted on 12/21/2008 8:13:20 AM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: nobama08

It would fix the problem completely. However, you will not find a large enough pot of taxpayers to do it, imho.

I, while a hard working family, have never made enough to pay federal taxes, I have always gotten back more than I put in due to the child tax credits. Maybe in a couple years that will change, when I no longer have children young enough to claim.

I think that my story is repeated over and over, which is while it would be very effective if enough of the upper income brackets would do it, will not have the desired effect. They have put the under 50,000 per year family as receipients only, not payers.

We need a flat tax so all pay their FAIR share. No tax on necessities or items purchased at a goodwill store. 15 % or so everywhere else. That way even illegals, drug dealers, prostitutes and others who don’t pay taxes would have to.

Hard work and earning more would be rewarded instead of punished, and savings and thrift shopping/spending would be encouraged. Used cars, houses, boats, no tax- already taxed when new so it would be double taxation.

It’ll never happen cause the rich and their luxurious lifestyles would force them to ACTUALLY pay their fair share instead of finding loopholes in tax laws on income written by the rich for the rich, but, hey, a girl can dream.........


18 posted on 12/21/2008 8:20:29 AM PST by wombtotomb (since its "above his paygrade", why can't we err on the side of caution about when life begins?)
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