Posted on 09/28/2012 5:54:03 PM PDT by LD Jackson
I believe our nation’s founders paid a form of property tax.
The problem is that you’re attaching an entire political goal to a person.
What you should do is call for adherence to conservatism and common sense, not to the thinking of a man who is no longer alive to explain it to you.
Besides, if the polls show that broad a field of support for higher federal personal income taxes i"ve got to use everything i can ~ short of thermonuclear warfare of course ~ so, Ronaldus Magnus said STARVE the BEAST and GET OFF THEIR BACKS ~ metaphorically of course, but he had a quick mind and would have been up to speed in a thrice!
Time for Conservatives get on the ball and pick up his revolutionary torch and press on against the forces of evil and greed.
OK......
But it should be the same percentage, because cold hard mathematics say that is the most fair way to do it...
Bring on a FLAT tax.
I would like to end the Earned Income Tax Credit—it just amounts to welfare. Lots of illegal aliens cashed in on this in 2010.
Yes, and the size of the Federal Government MUST be cut in 1/2.
It is TIME to DownSize DC! Close entire Rogue Departments. Move any worthwhile functions back to the States.
It is TIME to force Congress & Senate to telecommute most of the year. Away from DC and the Lobbyists and under the thumb of the electorate.
IT IS TIME!
But it should be the same percentage, because cold hard mathematics say that is the most fair way to do it...
Well, given that less wealthy people pay a higher percent of their income on SS, fuel taxes, utility taxes etc., why.
Making everybody subject to the income tax is not about raising the tax burden. If everyone is subject to the income tax, then those who now pay nothing will suddenly care about how much Congress spends, and what income tax rates are. More people will likely vote for lower spending and lower tax rates. So, the ultimate result (naturally with a time lag) will be lower government spending and lower taxes.
That was the argument that I used to use, now all I hear is that increasing taxes is now universal, like so many things, the republicans and the democrats have combined efforts to figure out how to raise taxes.
the only fair tax is a sales tax...on everything except food.Buy a house....sales tax 1 federal 1 state. No income tax, no cap gains tax...nothing. If you earn a dollar and keep it, it is yours. If, on the other hand, you spend it, the govt. gets a chunk from EVERYBODY.
Maybe so; but the abolition of the poll tax and the inclusion/encouragement of the non-producers as voters drastically altered the structure of things.
Take Women's Suffrage, I'm not sure that it was a good thing: before it the man of the family voted for the family as a unit - this system was somewhat predisposed to keep families together - but with the introduction of women's suffrage voting shifted from a center of the family-unit to that of an individual. This, in turn, gave the women the incentive to use government to create a safety-net so that they no longer needed men as providers, they could rely on government instead.
Yes there's a lot of other influencing factors; but I'm simply presenting the one facet to illustrate how what was once a stable system could become vastly different with just a small change in the conditions/procedures.
To tie it back into property taxes -- before when the people that were directing government [via vote] were landowners they could be reasonably sure that their [land] rights would be respected; now, however, they are a distinct minority and there is profit to be made by violating their rights. (See Kelo v. New London.)
The nation got along perfectly fine without an income tax for over a hundred years till the progressives got their greasy mitts on us.
No prob if you don’t pay taxes... Of course if you do not, you should not be allowed to vote. Simple solution. Why should people not contributing to the finances have any say over their use? This is just common sense.
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