[kevkrom]

you’re the ‘expert economist’, not me. but even I know that the more you tax something, the less people buy of it.

Which includes labor, as well as other forms of income generation, all of which drive the economy just as much (if not more, when considering exports).

I'm no expert economist, but it makes no practical or logical sense that an insidious, multi-layer, front-loaded tax would be less disruptive to an economy that a single-stage, transparent, back-loaded tax.

[camle]

i’d look at how other countries get their money.
OR
i’d consider ALL money coming in as income - regardless of source, and tax every dollar at the same rate for everybody.

at x percent, everybody’s paying based upon income, the rich pay more, the poor pay less, everybody has a stake in the government, and with no exemptions, it remains really ‘fair’.

it’s simple, enforceable, transitionable, and really fair. And if the ‘poor’ gripe about payign their fair share, then there’s that public outcry you wanted.