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Sorry my bad, did not think it was so difficult but now understand better. It’s a nightmare to manage.
I prefer sales tax to Income tax. Here in Washington State we have a sales tax but no income tax.
How do you think States should compensate lost sales tax revenue? Not saying they should cut services such as Fire. Police etc. but without getting into a spending debate, I an wondering how local government gets funded as e-commerce forces then to take a hit?
I am sick to death of so many taxes and absolutely hate the income tax with every fiber of my being, but I can live with a reasonable sales tax because it is transparent and gives me a choice to avoid or not.
So I am just pondering what states and locals will do if their sales tax revenue streams decline and there’s nothing they can do about it. Hike property taxes? Hike local brick and mortar business taxes?
I wish there was the FairTax at both federal and state levels. And no property tax, no income tax, no capital gains tax, no business tax etc. But this is an issue of cross border tax engineering and it’s important how to make it simple, reasonable, fair and transparent.
90% of the taxes go to the enriching the bureaucracy and providing things citizens should be paying for themselves.
Education: If you have a kid pay for his education. Expecting someone else to pay is so un-American it makes my head explode. The whole education bureaucracy is completely unnecessary and useless, especially at the State and Federal level.
Medicare/Medicaid: People need to pay for their medical treatment. They've increased the demand dramatically with these idiotic programs and can't figure out why the costs have skyrocketed. Duh.
It goes on and on and on.
Government was designed to protect our unalienable rights.
How about they drop every other tax on businesses except for a sales tax? That would keep local vendors competitive and more than competitive.
Won’t happen, but it’s actually a revenue-neutral solution.
Also, why should an e-tailer in another state be required to pay for another state’s fire/police/idiot politicians when it will derive no benefit or service from said monies as they are not in that state?
I agree very much!
But I’ve asked some of the more visible proponents of the Fair Tax about abolishing property taxes while they’re at it. They won’t discuss it and said that they only want the sales tax while abolishing taxes on corporations.
So far, I’m through with helping any of the corporate-government-academic families with any political effort. They’re the problem.
If property taxes continue while corporate taxes are abolished, only the corporate-government-academic families will own real properties from then on. Everyone else would be evicted, because local governments (controlled by guess who, see above) would radically raise property taxes to put the peasants (the rest of us) out in order to beautify their housing developments (that is, “beautify” in the eyes of unhealthy NIMBYs and HOA queens).
So abolish property taxes exclusively first, and I’ll help with abolishing corporate taxes. Otherwise,...no-vote, and I’ll continue to advocate for self-sufficiency, until we see completely new leadership.
And by self-sufficiency, I mean avoiding all unnecessary personal purchases, growing our own food, producing our own energy, and each of us maintaining a hobby of manufacturing a useful necessity. ...until the default and subsequent completely new leadership (new families in business, politics and academia with no more inbreeding).