Design Your Own Flat Income Tax!

Townhall.com ^ | September 30, 2011 | Political Calculations

[chris_bdba]

No they cost society more.A home with kids produces more garbage yet pays the same fee as other residents do who don’t.They use school services that homes without kids have to pay for yet don’t use.I can go on and on but they do cost society more than homes without them yet we all have t pay the same.They do not pay taxes induvidully they should not be a deduction.

[chris_bdba]

Give up the old arguments children do not care for their parents anymore they put them into a home where they pay people to do that.Those of us who pay dearly so others can have a deduction for their kids know that already.

[rigelkentaurus]

1. repeal both the 16th and 17th amendments

2. pass a new amendment which authorizes a national sales

3. include in the amendment a maximum tax (15%)

4. include a maximum in the amendment of the maximum spending by the Federal government as a fraction of GDP

5. include a clause that explictly prohibits the Fed gov’t from passing spending laws that shift the spending to other entities

6. require the entire fed budget to follow generally accepted accounting practices, that are required by the private sector

7. prohibit any and all “off budget” accounts of any kind

[ctdonath2]

Better alternative:

Have the federal government issue a tax bill to each state & territory. Two days a year, two guys divvy up the expected revenue based on jurisdictional population & size and send out the bills, then for two more days process the checks (receive, record, & cash).

Let the states & territories work out how they’re going to extract that money from citizens, and how they’re going to pressure the feds to stop demanding so much.

[GranTorino]

Sounds like you live in the world of bitter spinsters to me.I would have to move if I lived there. I guess you don't care about continuing the human race.
By the way, my two retired neighbors produce more trash than my four person family and my best friend takes care of his invalid mother with the help of his sister with no complaints

[supercat]

I would propose an absolutely flat tax, and replace all means-tested welfare programs with a flat payment which would be balanced against people's taxes. While such a system would in the short term increase the number of people who receive more than they pay in, it would greatly improve the marginal earnings-to-spending-money ratio for lower-income people, thus allowing employers to hire workers more cheaply, and reducing the amount of subsidy people would need to live.

Perhaps I'm overly optimistic, but I think a lot of voters would realize that even if they presently only earn $12,000/year, it would be better to receive $2,500/month of government subsidy but be able to keep 80% of what they earn (i.e. $9,600), than to receive $5,000/month but only keep 60% of what they earn ($7,200). The latter scheme would leave them with $100 more in their pocket, but would leave them with less potential for earnings improvement.

Eliminating the evil means testing from welfare programs would make people much more sensitive to marginal tax rates: if someone seems something that costs $100 and wants to do a little extra work so they can get it, how much extra work do they need to do? For many of the working poor who receive some means-tested government assistance, each marginal dollar they earn nets less than $0.50 in additional spending money, and the fraction of their earnings that they get to retain is entirely detached from the tax rates borne by "the rich". Making the marginal earnings-to-spending-money ratio for poor people track that of rich people would help encourage a lot of poor people to support policies to improve that ratio for everyone.

[chris_bdba]

Not at all.I had been happily married for nearly 27 years.Sounds like you want goodies you aren’t entitled to paid fr by someone else...how liberal of you.

[GranTorino]

Ow-ch.