A flat tax revenue system would destroy the Left !!

[DaGoose]

With a 10% flat tax rate the left would no longer be able to use class warfare to promote their socialist agenda !! and knowing that Americans taxes cant be raised they would no longer be able to buy votes and freedom with increased spending on social programs !!

It would only force more and more corporations and jobs to go overseas if you start making them pay ANY tax.

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[editec]

The worse it gets the sooner the revolution, comrade.

 

[yidnar]

Steve Forbes proposed a 17% flat tax back in the 80's and the bean counters figured out that it wouldn't come close to covering the spending back then.

Bean counters, like many others, have a tendency to ignore information not in front of their eyes. specifically the uncacluated benefits to the economy of a simplified tax system.

Not to mention that any sane person supporting the flat tax also realizes that we need to severely cut government spending.

Kind of like the uncalculated benefits that supply side economics were going to magically produce?

lol

Btw. a 10% flat tax on my top line income (aka gross) would be a tax INCREASE for me, and I don't have any dependents.

Careful what you wish for.

i guess you are for lowering the tax rate then !! I thought you lefties wanted to raise taxes !! 10% would be a lower tax rate for productive Americans !!

 

[yidnar]

Funny .....I here libbs saying a 10% flat tax is raising the tax rate!! sounds to me libbs like NY carboneer and others from the left don't like to pay taxes,they wan't others to pay !! Typical liberal hypocrite's !!he said 10% would be a tax increase for him !!well if you support tax increases practice what you preach !! and a 10% tax rate would be a tax brake for most productive Americans !!

 

[NYcarbineer]

Funny .....I here libbs saying a 10% flat tax is raising the tax rate!! sounds to me libbs like NY carboneer and others from the left don't like to pay taxes,they wan't others to pay !! Typical liberal hypocrite's !!he said 10% would be a tax increase for him !!well if you support tax increases practice what you preach !! and a 10% tax rate would be a tax brake for most productive Americans !!

So you're acknowledging that the flat tax as it's generally touted would be a tax increase for lower and middle income Americans and a tax cut for upper income Americans.

That was my point. Thanks for letting me drag it out of you.

Case closed. The above reality is exactly why so many conservatives support a flat tax.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Bean counters, like many others, have a tendency to ignore information not in front of their eyes. specifically the uncacluated benefits to the economy of a simplified tax system.

Not to mention that any sane person supporting the flat tax also realizes that we need to severely cut government spending.

Kind of like the uncalculated benefits that supply side economics were going to magically produce?

lol

Btw. a 10% flat tax on my top line income (aka gross) would be a tax INCREASE for me, and I don't have any dependents.

Careful what you wish for.

i guess you are for lowering the tax rate then !! I thought you lefties wanted to raise taxes !! 10% would be a lower tax rate for productive Americans !!

Yep. A lower tax rate for Rush Limbaugh and a higher tax rate for the guy who mows his lawn.

That is conservative tax policy philosophy in a nutshell.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The economy boomed for 20 years after Reagan's tax cuts.



You must be one big time loser. I would be grateful to pay only 10%

The Reagan tax cuts produced 11 straight years of triple digit deficits.

No, that would be the Reagan spending.

Only if you live in the delusional world of Conservatopia where paying less in taxes doesn't mean you pay less in taxes.

 

[Seawytch]

A flat tax wouldn't destroy the left, but it would create even more income inequality in this country. The rich, who can hide and invest their money wouldn't be paying the tax, the poor and middle class would. 10% to someone making $20,000 a year would be devastating. The rich simply wouldn't pay it.

Sounds perfect for the GnOP corporatist party.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Speaking of the Steve Forbes flat tax, it's worth remembering that as it was proposed back in the 80's, which is when I remember it,

because of an income exemption built into it, for example (the example most often used by Forbes)

a family of four making 36,000 would pay no federal income taxes. If you adjust that for inflation you'd see that Forbes' flat tax creates generally the same situation you have today, i.e.

that a large number of lower income Americans would still pay no federal income tax. And since the flat tax is a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, who makes up the difference?

The middle and upper middle classes. They are the ones that get slammed by most flat tax plans.

 

[Truthmatters]

why is it these people think in such simple terms.

they think you can set things on automatic and forgert it.

Flat taxes and unfettered markets is how they think.

They dont want to have to think.

Democracy is not easy, its hard and you have to think and reacess all the time in reaction to what happens in the wolrd.

They are just sure there is some automatic setting where they can set it and forget it.

Childish thinking

 

[idb]

With a 10% flat tax rate the left would no longer be able to use class warfare to promote their socialist agenda !! and knowing that Americans taxes cant be raised they would no longer be able to buy votes and freedom with increased spending on social programs !!

Wouldn't that represent a tax increase on rich people?
Wouldn't they take their jobs overseas?

 

[yidnar]

Funny .....I here libbs saying a 10% flat tax is raising the tax rate!! sounds to me libbs like NY carboneer and others from the left don't like to pay taxes,they wan't others to pay !! Typical liberal hypocrite's !!he said 10% would be a tax increase for him !!well if you support tax increases practice what you preach !! and a 10% tax rate would be a tax brake for most productive Americans !!

So you're acknowledging that the flat tax as it's generally touted would be a tax increase for lower and middle income Americans and a tax cut for upper income Americans.

That was my point. Thanks for letting me drag it out of you.

Case closed. The above reality is exactly why so many conservatives support a flat tax.

most middle class Americans pay more than 10% in federal income taxes !!

 

[editec]

Help the needy not the greedy.

 

[DiamondDave]

Funny .....I here libbs saying a 10% flat tax is raising the tax rate!! sounds to me libbs like NY carboneer and others from the left don't like to pay taxes,they wan't others to pay !! Typical liberal hypocrite's !!he said 10% would be a tax increase for him !!well if you support tax increases practice what you preach !! and a 10% tax rate would be a tax brake for most productive Americans !!

So you're acknowledging that the flat tax as it's generally touted would be a tax increase for lower and middle income Americans and a tax cut for upper income Americans.

That was my point. Thanks for letting me drag it out of you.

Case closed. The above reality is exactly why so many conservatives support a flat tax.

Again... asking... state fully whether you are for equal treatment by government under law for all, or not...

As noted SO many times... you really seem to only be for equal treatment when it benefits you, but all for unequal treatment for others when it benefits you

 

[DiamondDave]

Help the needy not the greedy.

Voluntarily help the needy as you see fit... treat everyone equally under government... we are not doing the latter now

 

[HUGGY]

With a 10% flat tax rate the left would no longer be able to use class warfare to promote their socialist agenda !! and knowing that Americans taxes cant be raised they would no longer be able to buy votes and freedom with increased spending on social programs !!

You can do your part to fight the "socialist agenda" by staying off of public roads. I know I would feel safer knowing there is one less dumb ass out there on the hyways we all share.

Just sayin...

 

[NYcarbineer]

Funny .....I here libbs saying a 10% flat tax is raising the tax rate!! sounds to me libbs like NY carboneer and others from the left don't like to pay taxes,they wan't others to pay !! Typical liberal hypocrite's !!he said 10% would be a tax increase for him !!well if you support tax increases practice what you preach !! and a 10% tax rate would be a tax brake for most productive Americans !!

So you're acknowledging that the flat tax as it's generally touted would be a tax increase for lower and middle income Americans and a tax cut for upper income Americans.

That was my point. Thanks for letting me drag it out of you.

Case closed. The above reality is exactly why so many conservatives support a flat tax.

most middle class Americans pay more tan 10% in federal income taxes !!

Wrong.

Average effective federal income tax rate, all Americans, 2007,

9.3%

Average rate for middle income Americans, as you can see by the chart, would be even lower.

Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates for All Households

 

[yidnar]

With a 10% flat tax rate the left would no longer be able to use class warfare to promote their socialist agenda !! and knowing that Americans taxes cant be raised they would no longer be able to buy votes and freedom with increased spending on social programs !!

You can do your part to fight the "socialist agenda" by staying off of public roads. I know I would feel safer knowing there is one less dumb ass out there on the hyways we all share.

Just sayin...

And a somebody running over your faggot ass on a public road would be doing even more to fight the socialist agenda !!