The top 5 pay more than 96% of the income tax.
The bottom 5 - less than 4%!!!
The current system exists because corrupt politicians can buy votes with someone else's money! That someone is you!
The unfairness is incredible!
People who pay no taxes vote for (or tell pollsters they favor) more taxes. Why not? They don't have to pay them!
Add to that the massive non-productive paperwork and filing of tax returns, and the burden on our best workers rises even more.
Stop the insanity.
A fair tax eliminates the bias, and will unleash our creative talents, unchained by government interference.
A renaissance the likes the world has never seen will spawn innovation, wealth and freedom.
It is worth fighting for.
"People who pay no taxes vote for (or tell pollsters they favor) more taxes. Why not? They don't have to pay them!Guys, EXACTLY!!! So, In order to "rectify" {I considered rectumfy} that, the "fair" taxers would create a conglomerate of "Old Money Harrys" who pay no taxes and have the wherewithal to pay attention and influence those who make the tax laws to "protect" them better.
I suggest a true flat tax based on income with NO deductions and/or exemptions including tax free "non-profits". NO EXCEPTIONS!! Peace and love, George.
I’m highly disappointed in WND. I expect a lot more from them.
I expected more honesty from them too. This isn't the first time they've let a writer, in this case Joan Veon, get the best of them.
Replacing the graduated/progressive income tax with a consumption tax such as the NRST would set off a chain reaction of benefits.
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...
Cause U.S. made products more competitive when sold within the USA against foreign imports.
Cause 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?
Introduction
Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. How can so many people thinking they're right be so wrong?
Before voting for a politician make sure that they address Issue 101. Demand that of media outlets too.
Issue 101 -- The House of Cards
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.
It cost more than just two trillion dollars a year to fund government abuse. That abuse hinders people's development, especially children being indoctrinated rather than educated, harms the economy and is largely responsible for causing false booms and reality-adjusting bust cycles in markets.
Flushing that money down the toilet -- save for military defense spending -- would be better for individuals, their families and society. That's a different way of saying, can't we just pay congress to stay home and not leave their houses. Surely we'd be better off. Politicians and bureaucrats are sick and need your help.
Fully integrated honesty is key. That we have the government we have -- delivered by both Democrats and Republicans -- 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.
Politics is not the solution -- politics is the problem.
Who are the parasites?
Who are the producers?
Ostracizing the parasitical value destroyers
Praise the value producers
Step one for helping politicians and bureaucrats:
Get your head out of their sandbox.
Step two: Demand that they address Issue 101. Do the same with the media.
Step three: Ostracize government officials that fail to honestly address Issue 101. Do the same with the media.
Step four: Champion science and business communities -- often under relentless attack by the government. For they create jobs, necessities, luxuries and ever greater advancements that support human life, family and society.
While true, this is highly misleading. The problem is limiting your view to the income tax alone - that is far from the only tax we pay. To take one very obvious example, for most wage earners, the social security tax is our biggest burden - much more so than the income tax. And that tax is regressive - and it only applies to wages, making it even more regressive. But, if you just look at income tax, it doesn't figure into your calculations at all.
When you look at our tax burden overall, it turns out we're already pretty close to a flat tax. Everyone winds up paying fairly close to the same percentage of their income in taxes. Now, we take about the most complicated route possible to get there ;-) but we do get there. It is entirely unreasonable to simply look at one tax, in isolation, and declare it is unfair, and must change.
Drew Garrett