The sure pretend to do it under the income tax system everytime government lays a tax on a civil servant's paycheck, a contractor's profits, Treasury bond interest,Common sense and legal presidence says that a tax on income is not a tax on the source of that income. Taxing a government employee's income is not taxing the government.
Common sense and legal presidence says that a tax on income is not a tax on the source of that income. Taxing a government employee's income is not taxing the government.
Common sense said the world was flat and you could fall off the edge if you went to far from home, and legal precidence supports the continuation of Roe v Wade.
Sorry, if the government is financing it, taxing it has only made sense in preventing economic distortions such as is created out of apparent low pay for civil servants and military or the price of government purchases as compared costs to the private industry, and is why any sales tax system must tax consumption goods and services by government the same as the household is taxed in aquiring goods and services.
For none consumption situations however, the federal irrational roundrobin of taxing payments received from government is exactly why SS benefits, at one time, were not taxed, welfare distributions are not taxable and government grants generally escape the IRS axe for whatever rationale.