“Since we have no state income tax to deduct, they allow us to use the state sales tax instead, which is 6%, 0% on food and medicines, but only a portion of it can be claimed, and you have to have receipts for all of the claimed part.”
I don’t think you are right bot the receipts. There are tables you can use to determine your sales tax deduction, depending on your state/locality (if there is a local sales tax, like, for example, NYC has) and income. Of course, if you make a major purchase like a car or something on which you paid sales tax, yes, you’d need a receipt for that.
I’m for a flat tax, right of the top, on any earned income. Even if it cost me my part time job.
Even my rich liberal boss was for this.
I suppose if he and I are both for it, it will never happen, but it should is a good guess.
I agree, we should have a flat tax for everybody. Everybody should pay something. When you have a huge percentage of voters that pays no taxes, essentially, you invite corruption into the system.
I am reminded of the episode of the original Star Trek (A Cut of the Action) where they went to a planet whose governments were based on the 1920’s gangster wars in Chicago (where else?). In one scene, Oxmix (Vic Tayback) was The Boss of his district and a young woman came in complaining about the electricity in her building needing some work. She said something like, “I pay my 10% cut and for what? This kind of service?” Then Oxmix said, “Get out, I’ll take care of it!”.
If everyone pays their ‘cut of the action’ people would be more responsible for whom they vote.........