Making it easy to collect taxes is your goal? The costs of these taxes should be in our face! You shouldn't have withholding on your income tax, you should write the check. Note this one is in our face and no pays it because it finally is real. I wish more taxes were like this.
You want to shift the collection costs over to Amazon? Why should they pay the cost?
I attended a city council meeting regarding building codes and the first thing out of the mayors mouth was, “I don't care about you and I don't care about your problems......” This is what most of politicians think of us. I am NOT going to feed the beast that is going to take everything away from me. Go ahead if you want. I have vowed to buy as much as I can outside of this city so I don't pay local sales tax. I am going to stop making improvements because all they do is tax me on it.
As I asked, when does your revolution begin? Did playing nice with King George get them anywhere? I'm sure you are a nice guy but I would not go into battle with you.............
You were the one who complained that the cost to you of the tax was too much; I was agreeing with you, but apparently that was just an argument to justify not paying your taxes? If you can justify not paying taxes because they are just too hard, but you object to making it easier, then what, do you just expect Bill Gates to pay all the taxes so you could have a military to defend your freedom?
Yes, I am PRO-TAXES. I believe that we need a government, and I believe that we should actually pay for the government, and not just borrow the money and make our kids pay for it. I also think government for the most part is way too big, so our taxes should be lower, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't pay taxes.
I also believe that the sales tax is a good method for collecting some of the taxes we need to pay for the government we need; income tax is also a good tax for collecting a part of that money.
Unless you think we'd be OK without police, without a court system, without a structure to enforce the rights you have to your own property, without a military, without the ability to enter into treaties with other countries, you have to accept that there WILL be taxes. And if we are going to pay taxes, I want it to be as easy as possible. The pain is not in the PROCESS of paying taxes, it is in the dollars you see leaving your pocket.
With the sales tax, you see the money go away every time you buy something. That's not hidden, like the gasoline tax where they won't even display the taxes you paid when you filled up.