I am glad you are happy with the current tax system.
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Oh, I either buy 999, which is a non-starter, or I am "happy" with the status quo...
I see that you are one of those freepers...
Have a nice day.
Propose a better system then!
Instead of complaining about someone who did!
A flat tax maybe, its better then what we got now. But not the best system for a free economy. We have a huge huge savings problem in this country, we save less then any other free market economy. A sales tax doesn't punish capital formation, in fact it encourages it and we desperately. It also makes everyone put skin in the game and it removes the “hidden taxes”. If everyone is a taxpayer, raising taxes will be big election issues. The cry “tax the corporations & make the rich pay” will lose its appeal. Again ultimately customers you& I pay all federal corporate taxes, its in the price of the product. Even Nike who seems to be as you indicated immune to market forces pays US federal corporate taxes and that is embedded in the price of the product. Nike in a “national sales tax USA” might find itself no longer immune to market forces. Maybe Keds wil make a comeback in that world (Do they even still exist?)
When we reach a point where there is a majority of non-payers and we are close! The present system is putting us there. Its over, you will be given a “living allowance” by the government, maybe.
Actually if we can't stop spending it doesn't matter what we do tax-wise. The primary problem is still entitlements, not defense, not government salaries, not earmarks, or “plus-ups” but entitlements. It killing Europe, and that is our future if we don't stop spending.