Freemason9
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Wrong, our economy is collapsing because of OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT SPENDING, PERIOD, END OF STORY.First of all, I'm not a "right winger." I'm an independent, fiscal and social conservative. Get that straight.
Second, (and don't EVER expect this to happen no matter WHO is president), EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT OFFICE should be gone through and the ones that are NOT NECESSARY, END THEM!
Second, NO MORE PORK BARREL SPENDING, END IT ALL, DONE WITH, OVER.
Third, end ALL FOREIGN aid to countries that hate us, that tit runs dry.
Fourth, END ALL WARS, TOTAL PULL OUT, NO MORE OCCUPYING, NO MORE NATION BUILDING.
Fifth, a constitutional amendment making LOBBYING ILLEGAL, NO MORE INFLUENCE BUYING AND CRONYISM.
Sixth, a FLAT TAX OF 13% FOR EVERY.... E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E!
Seventh, TERM LIMITS FOR ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THE SUPREME COURT, no more GOOD OLE BUYS CLUB.
How's that STARTERS mister liberal?
LOL, my apologies!
I agree with most of what you say, except for that "flat tax" fiction. You know why? Because all income taxation is based upon how "income" is calculated. That's how slave owners (American aristocrats and corporations) evade taxation--they buy Congressmen and make certain that tax law is written in a way that excludes a good bit of their money from income taxation. Hell, even "investment" and "capital gains" income receives special treatment--and I know many "entrepreneurs" that manage to write down their income to nearly zero for tax purposes.
So, a "flat tax" solves nothing whatever--it merely raises taxes substantially on the poorest workers, and lowers them substantially for those with all the money.
Our economy is collapsing because of the massive wealth concentrations that have occurred since Reagan "flattened" the tax code in 1980. Check out stats, that's a testable hypothesis. I'm not making it up.
You're wrong about a flat tax too. Everywhere a flat tax has been implemented tax revenue has shot through the roof. It works, whether you'd like to believe so or not. I call fair EVERYONE paying the SAME PERCENTAGE of their income in taxes. We do NOT have that now. The large amount of taxes paid by the top 1% of income earners in America is an abortion and travesty of justice and fairness.
Again, the problem is with income determination. In other words, the millionaire Homestead Act farmland heir today that pays nothing in income taxes will still pay nothing under a flat tax.
Get it?
Also, the "fiscal cliff" would have helped with that spending problem--except the GOP could not accept military spending cuts. And so it goes.