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To: Wuli

I prefer a National Sales Tax.

Everyone pays every time they buy a beer or a bicycle.


30 posted on 11/09/2017 1:19:17 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Fair tax would be a good thing.


32 posted on 11/09/2017 1:28:56 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: Mariner

I prefer direct taxes, not hidden taxes like sales taxes. Sales taxes tax consumption, and that sounds “good” but no hidden tax (you never notice it) is “good”.

It is not that I think consumption should be preferred over savings &/or investment, anymore than I think (do not) that labor should be preferred over business income & or capital investment.

By taxing the GDP on revenue (the closest approximation of the GDP), and taxing it all equally, there is no tax preference to either labor, savings & investment or consumption. It is a simple across the board hit on the broadest measure of the GDP, which would make it least “unfair” on everyone; goring no one’s ox more than any other one.


38 posted on 11/09/2017 2:06:53 PM PST by Wuli
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