Merlin1047
Senior Member
Originally posted by gop_jeff
Also, since when did anyone say anything about taxing benefits? As far as I have heard, only monetary income is taxed. Health insurance, as a non-monetary benefit, would not be taxed.
If benefits are not taxed, then how do you deal with my scenario of the rich who will disguise income as benefits?
Also, Jeff, you can't seriously believe that the chicken-shits in Congress would keep their slimy hands off of benefits. Take this scenario - Flat tax rate set at twelve percent turns out to be too low to produce the revenue Congress thinks that it needs. When faced with a decision between raising the tax rate to 13.5 percent or sneakily increasing the tax base by taxing certain benefits, which do you think will be the choice of the highly ethical and honest folks in D.C.?