[Kellis91789]

Even the name "AMT" is a misnomer unless you first accept a Socialist definition.

A TRUE "Alternative Minimum Tax" would mean that EVERYBODY paid some minimum amount of tax. It would not be targeted at the wealthy like the AMT is.

It would be some flat percentage tax that applied to all income -- without any deduction, exemptions, or credits -- to ensure an active interest in intelligent government spending even at the lowest levels of income.

Instead, the AMT targets the most productive people in our society and ignores the growing horde of less productive people that pay nothing.

The purpose of the progressive income tax and the AMT in particular is to chain the John Galts to their oars and be sure they keep working for the benefit of all the have-nots.

The scariest part is that the have-nots now control the entire world. Where can you find a Galt's Gulch to escape their demands ?

[pigdog]

Try the FairTax for starters.

[socialismisinsidious]

Thank you for your post. sometimes I think that I am the only one who sees the socialist path, via the income tax and the 'great society' welfare state, that this country is on.

to ensure an active interest in intelligent government spending even at the lowest levels of income
Again yes! I believe that this is the key to many problems that this nation faces...the burden and the responsibility must be carried by ALL before We the People can take back the power. Soon it will be too late.

When the majority are getting handouts then our voices will no longer matter....they won't need our votes, only our money.

I too like the FairTax, as pigdog suggested.

Galt's Gulch: if I knew how to find it/make it, I would.