Russia has a 13% flat tax...I would pay more with a flat tax, and I am for the flat tax. We need a simplified code to make it easier to comply. We need a law where everybody pays something so they stop thinking government services are free.
Russia has a 13% flat tax...I prefer the fair tax, but this is good news too
How about NO tax.
We should have to pay any transaction tax for the labor of our hands. That is OUR property.
a flat tax still is invasive of our privacy. we should stick with excise taxes (like gasoline taxes) with which taxes can be paid voluntarily and anonymously.
62 percent of Americans SUPPORT the flat tax - which we will NOT get.
60+ percent of Americans OPPOSE centralized health care - but we’re gonna get it rammed down our throats anyway.
Our government NO LONGER represents US. Period.
The Marxists will be fine with a flat tax, they’ll just make it 75% of income.
There, aren’t we clever?
Before you know it, our new "flat tax" law is every bit as onerous as the old one.
I am definitely in favor of a flat consumption tax to replace the progressive income tax we now have. The change would work against those of us who are now living off a lifetime of after-tax savings, effectively doubling our tax burden, but I am still in favor of it going forward.
I prefer the “Fair Tax” over the Flat Tax.(both are far more preferable over what we have currently)
I believe most people would favor the Fair Tax if they fully understood it, but unfortunately it can’t be explained in five/ten second sound bites, or thirty second ads.
The entire tax system has been hijacked by interests and politicians using it as a vehicle to control virtually every aspect of our financial lives. Everything from accountants, lawyers, companies like H&R Block, the welfare state, and politicians - they’ll never willingly surrender that kind of power. Entire institutions and livelihoods have been built around it. Just like our ‘legal industry’/criminal justice system.
Only matters what the oligarchs want.
A consumption tax, on the other hand, could be much simpler.
No damn way, if you don’t like paying taxes read the tax code and use it to NOT PAY TAXES!
I get screwed royally under a flat tax!!!
We were raped enough by the 1986 “Tax Simplifacation Tax”, which was the biggest tax increase in history!
Agree that the flat tax is the best answer.
people answer that way because they think they are paying more taxes than they currently are.
The average person thinks the amounts taken out for social security and medicare are part of their income taxes. When the fact is most neither are and most people currently pay no income tax.
Once they realized that a flat tax would mean THEY would actually pay A LOT more than they currently are, they would turn against it faster than you could say jack robertson.
I support a reasonable flat tax. Everyone should have skin in the game. I don’t care how much or how little you make, whether it’s wages, salary, unemployment, welfare, or something else, no one should be exempt from paying some tax. And no “earned income credit” That amounts to nothing but unearned income credit, courtesy of the rest of us. I support myself and my family. The rest of you do the same. Your kids are not my kids; don’t expect me to feed them.
The fair tax is the only income tax I’d support. We should go back to the only tax that works,tarrifs on imports.
How about this. The states handle all tax collection, and what might be left over goes to DC.
Oh hell, why we’re talkin pie-in-the-sky thoughts, every vote of a voter is tracked with their voter ID card. If you vote for a line item, you pay for it through some mechanism to deduct it from any funds/assets you have. Period. If you vote for amnesty, your assests/monies are subject to a regular deduction/withdrawal to pay your share of enabling these parasites to stay in this country.