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The fairest are user fees...Fuel taxes and hunting/fishing licenses, for example.
This isn't about broadening the base...It's about keeping gubmint in its box.The fairest are user fees...Fuel taxes and hunting/fishing licenses, for example.
They don't broaden the base much,but then people that don't fish,don't help support the ones that do.
Don't think we will ever have a tax thats completely fair to everyone.
Fair flat tax. No exemptions, no excuses, no exceptions.
On earnings, with no distinction between wages and capital gains?
If so, I could be on board with that, if it were to replace all consumption taxes.
Everyone would have some skin in the game and it's a better revenue generating system.
edit: to replace income taxes.
So you're saying a system that only taxes consumption would be best?
This isn't about broadening the base...It's about keeping gubmint in its box.The fairest are user fees...Fuel taxes and hunting/fishing licenses, for example.
They don't broaden the base much,but then people that don't fish,don't help support the ones that do.
Don't think we will ever have a tax thats completely fair to everyone.
Taxes on incomes and sales just give politicians more money to expand bureaucratic meddling and to try and buy votes.
The oxymoronic "fair tax" is a big fat joke, that does absolutely nothing to address the completely out of control spending that's going on at all levels.Income taxes tax good behavior (production).
I am coming around to the Fair Tax, which taxes consumption. I kind of support something like the GST they have in Canada, but the Fair Tax seems a lot simpler, cheaper, and more transparent, and tougher to cheat.
The Fair Tax is a national sales tax of sorts.
Under the Fair Tax, everyone gets a "prebate" to offset the regressive nature of a sales tax.
The Fair Tax eliminates the need for Social Security tax, income tax, Medicare tax, death tax, capital gains tax, EVERY tax. Therefore, it eliminates a shitload of collection points. Less paperwork for employers and everyone else except retailers. And the IRS can shrink to a tiny fraction of its current size. And you don't need H&R block to do your taxes any more.
It also gives exporters an advantage since exports aren't taxed at all. Business to business transactions are not taxed like they are in a VAT.
To cheat on the Fair Tax, both the buyer and seller would have to agree to cheat, and I don't see that happening at Best Buy.
Plus, anyone who earns their income illegally would have to pay a sales tax.
The best part is that everyone would know instantly when Congress had raised their taxes, and would feel the effects immediately.
There would be no hidden tax increases.
And nobody, not even Big Oil or Wall Street, gets a carve-out.
Everyone would have some skin in the game and it's a better revenue generating system.
edit: to replace income taxes.
So you're saying a system that only taxes consumption would be best?
yep.
Meh...I'm for making the people who use public services paying the full costs for them, and leaving those who use little to no services alone.This isn't about broadening the base...It's about keeping gubmint in its box.They don't broaden the base much,but then people that don't fish,don't help support the ones that do.
Don't think we will ever have a tax thats completely fair to everyone.
Taxes on incomes and sales just give politicians more money to expand bureaucratic meddling and to try and buy votes.
I agree on the don't give them anymore,but broader bases should deliver less pain tax wise.
Now I sound like a socialist LOL
So you're saying a system that only taxes consumption would be best?
yep.
I could be on board with this too under one, fairly significant, condition - That the most consumed resource in the entire economy also be subject to the tax, and that's labor.