Posted on 04/19/2019 11:45:17 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
Just repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments. Then abide by the 10th Amendment.
Anything else is unnecessary.
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So your proposal is to tax middle and working class people out of existence? Go away.
I take it you don’t have waterfront property.
But your idea as to how local governments shall be funded?
Repeal the 14th and 19th as well.
“ust repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments. Then abide by the 10th Amendment.
Anything else is unnecessary.
L”
What Lurker said! The 17th was among the worst things that evil progressive woodrow wilson presided over. It was an an initial domino in the slump toward transnational progressive globalism. Pick a favorite term for the same old elitist communist BS.
We are holding on by the skin of our teeth!
KYPD
All income earned, investment, pension or otherwise shall be considered taxable.
All moneys collected shall be spent as follows:
1% shall be placed aside for use in case of formally declared war or national emergency.
2% shall be used to retire any debt the government may have occurred before the passing of this amendment.
Of the remainder one half shall be used to fund the US military and the remainder shall be spent in the way the US congress deems fitting.
No moneys shall be borrowed by the federal government to continue the normal working of the federal government.
In case of formally declared war by the Congress the tax rate may be raised to 12%.
In case of formally declared war by the Congress moneys may be borrowed but will be used only to fund the military. Any congress critter that tries to do otherwise shall be thrown down the steps of the Capital and then hung by the neck until dead.
If you tie taxes to government salaries, gov salaries will skyrocket.
So you’re giving up your social security and Medicare, I presume?
Since they can no longer borrow from those funds it should self fund from the SS and Medicare tax collected currently.
This is just income tax. I can not fix everything in one amendment. :)
Where do I sign up?
“So your proposal is to tax middle and working class people out of existence? Go away.”
These are caps to prevent leftists from taxing “middle and working class people out of existence”.
Right now there are no caps.
Amendment: Any time there is an annual trade deficit a mandatory 20% across the board import tariffs will be collected until such time there is a trade surplus.
Granted it is not perfect but nothing is and I think it would fix many of the problems with the current system.
The only thing that worries me is that it would give the government too much money to spend.
“I take it you don’t have waterfront property.”
Unfortunately, political reality prevents extending the cap to waterfront property.
Democrats in Miami-Dade and elsewhere will scream at any proposal that would cap the tax of a $25 million waterfront mansion at around $25,000.
Federal government salaries have already skyrocketed as I have written.
Taxes are already tied to government salaries at the state and local level.
“giving up your social security”
The kids could give their money directly to their parents.
Before Social Security, the duplex was the US retirement funding vehicle of choice. A couple would buy two housing units and live off the rent of one in their old age.
Buy-to-let is the UK choice of private retirement funding.
Twenty-five percent tax on income over $66,000? Property taxes of $6000 on an average home? You're doing the leftists work for them.
“Anything else is unnecessary.”
Politics is the art of the possible.
The Congress had the power to tax incomes before the 16th Amendment.
Congress could levy heavy income taxes and rebate (via Social Security or by paying the property tax of lower income folks in lower income states) even if the 16th Amendment was repealed.
Congress has the power to give back the taxpayer’s money it has taken.
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