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A professor I once had was an advisor to Pinochet. He said they used to have head taxes in certain parts of Latin America. If you didn't pay, they would cut your head off.
I think we could get by with $1000 per head per year. That's about $300bn. Most of it goes to defense.
Hmm, I have a few questions. Is the payroll tax, sales tax, property tax (possibly included in the rent) included in this tax burden? If it is not what whould be actual number otherwise?
Now, about "income earners" - are there other sources of money that "earning income"? What about profits or capital gain? How the relations of tax burden would look if other items were included?
Those 50% who "make 13 percent of the money, but shoulder just 3.9 percent" MUST spend most of their money on necessities. Necessities can be seen as analogy to the costs for the corporation. If we count the whole earned income as a profit it is not right. The real long term base for taxation can be surplus income/profit, otherwise the tax becomes the tool of destruction. So if we calculate what percentage of surplus income/profits that lower 50% make we might have a different picture.
1. Boom the economy because productivity is not taxed; no tax on profits or hidden taxes/fees.
2. IRS threats and coercion eliminated and replaced with, "if you don't want to pay the tax, don't buy the item."
3. 20% to 30% decrease in retail prices that facilitates spending and partially offsets the retail tax. Which will also...
a. Make U.S. made products more competitive when sold within the USA against foreign imports.
b. Make U.S. made products more competitive in the World market.
4. People will know how much leviathan government is really costing them, resulting in...
5. Shrinking government to it's constitutional function to protect synonymous private-property rights and individual rights from domestic and foreign criminals while upholding the sanctity of private contracts.
6. Creates jobs in the USA.
7. Freedom in United States leads to other countries doing similar or risk its citizens fleeing to United States to increase productivity here while enjoying the fruits/prosperity of their labor.
More information at Americans for Fair Tax on the fairtax.org Web site.
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What do you get in return for your tax dollars?
Issue 101
How is it that people and society in general have prospered and increased their well being for decades yet the politicians and bureaucrats say we must have another 3,000 laws and regulations each year on top of the 100,000+ laws already on the books... That without them people and society face "disaster". People and society have done quite well without next year's 3,000 new federal laws and regulations. Why all of a sudden can people and society not continue to do quite well without them? The fact is, they'd be better off without 99% of them.
So who really benefits from 3,000 new laws and regulations each year? -- not to mention state laws and regulations. Politicians and bureaucrats. They create boogieman problems and with a complicit media towing their boogieman problems cast a net of false fear and unwarranted despair in people.
Quite literally, they create problems where none exist. They're sick in that they chose to frighten people and foist false despair on them and do that to collect their unearned paychecks. Their job security is predicated on deceiving as many people as possible.
Fully integrated honesty is key. That we have the government we have that has gone so far off course from the government the founders created is a product of irrationality and dishonesty. Changing the laws via the "system" is almost completely useless. Politicians create dozens of unconstitutional laws before even considering repealing just one unconstitutional law. That is not a system -- it's a quagmire of deception, irrationality, fraud and abuse.
Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. How can so many people thinking they're right be so wrong?
Wake up! Politics is not the solution -- politics is the problem.
Who are the producers?
Who are the parasites?
Praise the value producers --
Ostracizing the parasitical value destroyers.
We can't let our domestic policies be overshadowed by our foreign policies or the enconomy will eventually preclude the latter from succeeding.
This is a ridiculous statement. The point of the deductions is that the powers that be are recognizing (1) the tax rate is too high (2) that deductions enable the government to acquire power by directing specific types of spending (3) the complex code feeds an entire industry of tax specialists and civil servants.
What, then, is the effect of taxing wealth and subsidizing poverty?
I agree in total. But I find his calculations on percent of taxes paid by the various classes to be quite distorted. But what is most missing is any reference to accurate figures on which classes pay a greater percent of their expected income in taxes. I use the word 'expected' because that is the amount reasonably calculated, anticipated and settled upon at the point of exchange. If these figures were used, one would find that lower income earners, pay a higher percent in taxes, than do higher income earners (and that does not include sin taxes).
The US heavily taxes wealth-creation and hard-work... and subsidizes the non-working and the non-productive (including paying farms to not produce).
If that's the case then what good does it do a Republican politican to push to cut taxes to them. It only makes them look like they are helping out their good ole boys and seals the bogus media definition of a Republican.
Spoken as a person who doesn't pay any taxes.