Scrap the Income Tax Code?
Leasheryn/Lady Willpower
2012/08/17 00:16:16
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Do you support scrapping our current income tax code and replacing it with an entirely different system, such as a national sales tax or a flat tax?
Yes, abolish the tax code
No, keep the current system but simplify it and eliminate deductions and exemptions
Undecided
Top Opinion
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jean 2012/08/17 00:39:19
Reagan's Tax Reform Act of 1986 effectively was a flat tax, which lowered the numerous staggard rates from a top bracket of 70% down to three flat simple rates of 7%, 15% and 28% and abolished over 90% of all deductions and loopholes.
Here we are a quarter century later and Reagan's simple TRA'86 has ballooned into the massive draconian 70,000+ page system we have now.
The FairTax would abolish the tax code completely, abolish the IRS and mandate a sunset on the 16th Amendment so we don't have a repeat of what happened to Reagan's plan.
Support the SIX DOZEN congresscritters that cosponsored the FairTax!
thanks, AV
Thanks for your interest, AV
Please call your congress rep and ask them to cosponsor HR-25, or find a candidate to run against him that will.
However, govts do need money to fund their operations. Interest on the debt is a bill that must be repaid or the world economy collapses.
HR-1040 (the Flat Tax Option bill) has 9 cosponsors.
How many cosponsors does Mitt or Barry have for the proposals they are advocating? NONE.
Please vote for the candidates that provide actual SOLUTIONS instead of feel good platitudes and vague generalities.
Are you familiar with the FairTax's prebate feature which makes THIS sales tax a progressive tax system? http://www.fairtax.org/site/P...
I guess we need to define our terms. What is a "PURE" sales tax?
If not from taxing the sale of retail goods and services, how else do you think the FairTax garners revenue?
My preference for the FairTax (noun, not verb) is that it gives the choice of when, where and how much taxes are paid to the Taxpayer and takes that choice away from the gov't.
ANY income tax, flat or progressive, has the rate dictated by the gov't.... And if the gov't can dictate how much of your earnings they claim as their own...if they can pick and choose how much they can take... they effectively have a lien upon every dime that you earn, save, create or produce.
They can claim their ownership of your labor by the dictates of THEIR NEEDS, and not your needs. With the average amount of taxes paid by the typical middle income family being just over $10k... I think of the various announcements of government's largess, funding various projects and think of the familes that could have used that $10k to pay for their child's college fund, do repairs on their home, or save up to buy one... or to do any one of a number of things that are more important to that family than is whatever it is that the "program de-jur" is funding...
But what that family needs is secondary to the needs of the plantation, er I mean the needs of the state.... I've looked at every definition of slavery and cannot tell the difference.
An 18th century plantation owner effectivel...
My preference for the FairTax (noun, not verb) is that it gives the choice of when, where and how much taxes are paid to the Taxpayer and takes that choice away from the gov't.
ANY income tax, flat or progressive, has the rate dictated by the gov't.... And if the gov't can dictate how much of your earnings they claim as their own...if they can pick and choose how much they can take... they effectively have a lien upon every dime that you earn, save, create or produce.
They can claim their ownership of your labor by the dictates of THEIR NEEDS, and not your needs. With the average amount of taxes paid by the typical middle income family being just over $10k... I think of the various announcements of government's largess, funding various projects and think of the familes that could have used that $10k to pay for their child's college fund, do repairs on their home, or save up to buy one... or to do any one of a number of things that are more important to that family than is whatever it is that the "program de-jur" is funding...
But what that family needs is secondary to the needs of the plantation, er I mean the needs of the state.... I've looked at every definition of slavery and cannot tell the difference.
An 18th century plantation owner effectively had ownership claim on the labor of his slaves. That was the ONLY economic reason for having slaves... were the benefits derived from ownership of their production.
The FairTax transfers ownership of your labor over to YOU.
With any form of income tax, your money is SEIZED.
With the FairTax, your money is PAID.
One is compulsory while the other is purely voluntary.
My point is that we need to Abolish Indentured Servitude! and Pass the FairTax Bill!
Thanks for your interest. AV
If within five years of passing the FairTax (which abolishes the exsiting tax code and the IRS) the 16th Amendment has not been abolished, then the FairTax reverts back to the current system. That's in the bill.
Picture a society that get's used to having their ENTIRE paycheck as their 'take-home' pay!... and picture suddenly having 1/3 of it disappear in withholding tax if the 16th A, isn't gone. Thanks Tommy! AV
http://www.fairtax.org/site/P...
And no, we wouldn't ever go back.