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  • The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.'s Favorite Political Weapon

    02/01/2025 4:16:20 PM PST · by ammodotcom · 17 replies
    Ammo.com ^ | 2/1/25 | Jose Nino
    The American Revolution was sparked in part by unjust taxation. After all, the colonists in Boston rebelled against Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” and summarily tossed English tea into the harbor in protest in 1773. Nowadays Americans collectively spend more than 6 billion hours each year filling out tax forms, keeping records, and learning new tax rules according to the Office of Management and Budget. Complying with the byzantine U.S. tax code is estimated to cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually – time and money that could otherwise be used for more productive activities like...
  • Trump’s Tax Cuts Were Good. A Flat Tax Would Be Better: Congress should scrap itemized deductions and enact a flat personal and corporate rate of 15%.

    01/01/2025 5:26:26 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 94 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/30/2024 | Steve Forbes and Stephen Moore
    Making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent would be a good start for Congress in 2025. But it’s time to take an even bigger step: creating a simplified flat tax for all. The TCJA got us close to this goal, and a few additional reforms would get it done. Collapsing the personal-income and corporate tax rates to 15% would have huge economic benefits. America would suddenly have one of the lowest tax rates in the world, resulting in trillions of dollars of new capital flow and a spike in take-home pay. The simplicity of a flat tax would reduce...