People in general do not like paying taxes, and they always have certain items that they rally around to support or not support. And they cry, get angry, and frustrated when required to pay taxes for these items.
So I think we could come up with a fairer way to tax Americans, by letting them donate to whatever causes they wish to, and not donate to ones they dislike. And if there are not enough people to donate to a cause, it doesn't get funded. And if you don't want to donate at all, you don't have to.
Now is that fair to everybody, or have we some whiners here?
Personally I'd like to see the elimination of ALL taxes including all the hidden taxes in the products you buy. No income tax, no gas tax, no capital gains tax, etc... everything.
Replace it with 3 types of sales tax at the end point of the consumer market: Federal, State, and Local tax at the end point of sale. Each entity only gets to have **ONE** tax. Each tax rate and amount to be printed on the sales receipt so consumers now how much their government costs.
Let's say a company manufactures widgets. The company pays no tax on the materials to make widgets. Now a store buys 100 widgets. They use 2 as the end of line consumer - they would pay the tax on the cost of those two widgets. They sell 98 widgets, so they are not the consumer. When people buy the widgets, they pay the tax.
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