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This is initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive. The truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich.
Howard Dean:
This is initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive. The truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich.
Video at the link.
Dean: Everyone Needs to Pay More, That's Why the Cliff is Better | MRCTV
He still has a problem, there ain't enough money even if we go back to the Clinton taxes.
Howard Dean:
This is initially going to seem like heresy from a progressive. The truth is everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich.
Video at the link.
Dean: Everyone Needs to Pay More, That's Why the Cliff is Better | MRCTV
He still has a problem, there ain't enough money even if we go back to the Clinton taxes.
It amazes me that you have so many people that really think that Obama's plans are to stop at taxing the rich.
Buffet Rule, on all income from whatever source.
Howard Dean:
Video at the link.
Dean: Everyone Needs to Pay More, That's Why the Cliff is Better | MRCTV
He still has a problem, there ain't enough money even if we go back to the Clinton taxes.
It amazes me that you have so many people that really think that Obama's plans are to stop at taxing the rich.
I wouldn't. Reinstate the whole of the Clinton tax schedule. Those of us working can afford it, those not working won't be affected.
As a result, about 90 percent of filers will either pay a tax preparer or use a computer software service to help with their federal tax returns this spring, according to a report Wednesday by an independent government watchdog. "The existing tax code makes compliance difficult, requiring taxpayers to devote excessive time to preparing and filing their returns," says the report by Nina E. Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate. "It obscures comprehension, leaving many taxpayers unaware how their taxes are computed and what rate of tax they pay. It facilitates tax avoidance by enabling sophisticated taxpayers to reduce their tax liabilities and provides criminals with opportunities to commit tax fraud."
Olson said the tax code also "undermines trust in the system by creating an impression that many taxpayers are not compliant." She ranks complexity as the most serious tax problem facing taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service in her annual report to Congress. Momentum is building in Congress to overhaul the tax code for the first time since 1986. But Washington's divided government has yet to show it can successfully tackle such an issue. President Barack Obama and Republican leaders in Congress say they are onboard, though they have rarely seen eye to eye on tax policy. They struggled mightily just to avoid the year-end fiscal cliff, passing a bill that makes relatively small changes to the nation's tax laws, compared to a major overhaul.
"Our broken tax code has become a nightmare of loopholes and special interest provisions that create added complexities and costs for hardworking taxpayers and small businesses," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing House and Ways and Means Committee. "Comprehensive tax reform will make sure everyone is playing by the same rules, and help businesses create more jobs and invest in their workers."
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Buffet Rule, on all income from whatever source.
Buffet Rule, on all income from whatever source.
Buffet Rule, on all income from whatever source.
The equal rule.. on all income from every person without exception, every dollar from every source taxed exactly the same... see how you cry about raising taxes and government spending then
Buffet Rule, on all income from whatever source.
The equal rule.. on all income from every person without exception, every dollar from every source taxed exactly the same... see how you cry about raising taxes and government spending then
Which is exactly what we flat tax people have been proposing for years now, and the leftwing progressives consistently slap us down as 'evil' people who want to give all the rich a break and punish the poor, yadda yadda. Even many on the right won't embrace it but put forth the so-called 'fair tax' or other ideas as the way to go.
But two things need to happen:
1. We need a flat tax on all income of all types that is applied across the board. If you make $1,000 you pay the flat tax even if you get it back at the end of the year. If you make $10,000 you pay the same percentage of flat tax. If you make $1 milion, you pay the same percentage of flat tax. That gives everybody the same proportional amount of skin in the game and removes the politician's ability to manipulate the tax code to increase their own power and personal wealth.
2. We need a constitutional amendment that keeps the federal government from dispensing any form of charity to anybody, whether it is AIG or General Motors or a welfare mom. Gradually, so as not to create unnecessary hardship or chaos, responsibility for welfare should be shifted to the states and local communities to administer. That would remove the single most prevalent source of government graft and corruption and pull government budgets back into a framework limited to what the federal government MUST do, and not what it CAN do to keep politicians in office and increasing their own personal fortunes.
Do these two things, and the states would be so awash in funds available to them they could easily implement any kind of social benefits state the people wanted. It would return to the economy at least a third or more of the money the federal government spends just to feed the enormous federal bureaucracy and return more than another third to the states to use at it needs to be used.
The equal rule.. on all income from every person without exception, every dollar from every source taxed exactly the same... see how you cry about raising taxes and government spending then
Which is exactly what we flat tax people have been proposing for years now, and the leftwing progressives consistently slap us down as 'evil' people who want to give all the rich a break and punish the poor, yadda yadda. Even many on the right won't embrace it but put forth the so-called 'fair tax' or other ideas as the way to go.
But two things need to happen:
1. We need a flat tax on all income of all types that is applied across the board. If you make $1,000 you pay the flat tax even if you get it back at the end of the year. If you make $10,000 you pay the same percentage of flat tax. If you make $1 milion, you pay the same percentage of flat tax. That gives everybody the same proportional amount of skin in the game and removes the politician's ability to manipulate the tax code to increase their own power and personal wealth.
2. We need a constitutional amendment that keeps the federal government from dispensing any form of charity to anybody, whether it is AIG or General Motors or a welfare mom. Gradually, so as not to create unnecessary hardship or chaos, responsibility for welfare should be shifted to the states and local communities to administer. That would remove the single most prevalent source of government graft and corruption and pull government budgets back into a framework limited to what the federal government MUST do, and not what it CAN do to keep politicians in office and increasing their own personal fortunes.
Do these two things, and the states would be so awash in funds available to them they could easily implement any kind of social benefits state the people wanted. It would return to the economy at least a third or more of the money the federal government spends just to feed the enormous federal bureaucracy and return more than another third to the states to use at it needs to be used.
Yep. This can be summed up as "ban all tax expenditures".
Then we can lower the rates on everyone, and everyone in the same income brackets would be paying the exact same amount of tax as everyone else in their bracket. It does not get more fair and transparent than that.
Which is exactly what we flat tax people have been proposing for years now, and the leftwing progressives consistently slap us down as 'evil' people who want to give all the rich a break and punish the poor, yadda yadda. Even many on the right won't embrace it but put forth the so-called 'fair tax' or other ideas as the way to go.
But two things need to happen:
1. We need a flat tax on all income of all types that is applied across the board. If you make $1,000 you pay the flat tax even if you get it back at the end of the year. If you make $10,000 you pay the same percentage of flat tax. If you make $1 milion, you pay the same percentage of flat tax. That gives everybody the same proportional amount of skin in the game and removes the politician's ability to manipulate the tax code to increase their own power and personal wealth.
2. We need a constitutional amendment that keeps the federal government from dispensing any form of charity to anybody, whether it is AIG or General Motors or a welfare mom. Gradually, so as not to create unnecessary hardship or chaos, responsibility for welfare should be shifted to the states and local communities to administer. That would remove the single most prevalent source of government graft and corruption and pull government budgets back into a framework limited to what the federal government MUST do, and not what it CAN do to keep politicians in office and increasing their own personal fortunes.
Do these two things, and the states would be so awash in funds available to them they could easily implement any kind of social benefits state the people wanted. It would return to the economy at least a third or more of the money the federal government spends just to feed the enormous federal bureaucracy and return more than another third to the states to use at it needs to be used.
Yep. This can be summed up as "ban all tax expenditures".
Then we can lower the rates on everyone, and everyone in the same income brackets would be paying the exact same amount of tax as everyone else in their bracket. It does not get more fair and transparent than that.
But why have brackets? Why reward people for less success and punish people for greater success? Why is a flat tax so unacceptable to so many? The guy making $10,000 pays ten times the taxes that the guy making $1,000 pays. The guy making $100,000 pays ten times the taxes the guy making $10,000 pays. Why isn't that acceptable? And why can't more people see the ethical benefit in politicians not being able to buy votes by manipulating the tax code? If what they set the code at affects every wage earner equally, and they can't pay people not to work, don't you think they all might focus more on what is best for everybody instead of what increases their own power and personal fortunes?
