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On 5/24/2011 12:05 PM, RD Sandman wrote:
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On 5/24/2011 11:36 AM, RD Sandman wrote:
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On 5/24/2011 10:24 AM, RD Sandman wrote:
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On 5/24/2011 9:02 AM, gfn wrote:
On May 24, 11:24 am, John
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On 5/24/2011 8:20 AM, gfn wrote:

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Where are some credible souces to back up any of that
innuendo
you
keep attempting to push?

Truth is, sure looks like the wealthiest 1% are not paying
42% of all of governments costs, and sure looks like the top
19% are not paying half of governments costs, until that
happens they are NOT paying their fair share ... a flat tax
can fix that ...

Regards,
JS
I already said the tax data is at irs.gov

Now, as for a flat tax I agree with you 100%. The one I
advocate
is
the FairTax.
Let me put this more bluntly. If I buy and item and pay 7%
sales
tax,
the top one percent should buy an item and pay a 42.7% sales
tax,
that
way they will be contributing their fair share to run
government
...
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesam...er/wealth.html
And how do you know that at the time of purchase?
You set up a system which handles it ... where they pay their
fair
share
of the cost of government.
IOW, when buying a pack of gum at a Stop-N-Rob, you have to go
through
a
check on your income so they know how much tax to charge?

C'mon, even you can't be that stupid.


The flat tax, the flat tax, I thought you would be able to catch on
... I was wrong.
A flat tax is on income. It replaces the current method of
calculating income tax by applying the same tax rate to all income
not just wages and salaries. I gave an example of it here in this
thread. Did you take the time to read it? It is really quite
simply and quite short so you should have no problem understanding
it.

What you proposed above is a sales tax and it sure as hell isn't
flat. A flat sales tax would be the same percentage on whatever was
purchased and no matter who purchased it.

You need to learn a bit more before you venture out into the real
world.

Everyone paying their fair share, this is how the discussion began,
or, basically, everyone being equally taxed.


Let's see person A buys product Z and pays 7% in taxes. Person B buys
product Z and pays 7% in taxes

What's more fair than that?

Same product, same taxes paid.

Fair.

Or a person earns $50K and is taxed 15% on amount over federal poverty
level. Another person earns $500K and is taxed 15% on amount over
federal poverty level. Same percentage on taxable income paid. Fair.

The big problem with sales taxes is what is taxed. How about food or
necessities? Food stamps? Now you begin to list exemptions....and the
list goes on......Thanks, Sonny and Cher......



The real problem is...

First you have to decide how much the government needs to funtion.

To do that you have to decide what the government should be doing.

I think rather than discussing camoflaging how the feds fleece the taxpayer
those questions really need to be answered.

I am of the opinion that taxes overall hurt the economy by taking people's
hard earned money. I don't care if you are the bus boy or the owner of the
chain. You earened it, it's yours.

Overall if the bite is reasonably low than whatever negative effects it has
are mitigated. But the only really effective way to increase government
revenues is to have a going, expanding economy. That way whatever
"protection" money the government extorts from the people can increase
without increasing the percentage that it takes.

Of course that would require a complete ovrehaul of most federal policies
and the expulsion of Marxists and enviromentalists.

One would have to stop viewing tax policy as a method of molding people's
behavior and relegate to the neccessary evil it is.

Frankly I have yet to hear anyone explain to me how we can tax out way out
of the current crisis wherein the debt equals the GDP and is likely to
double in 8 years. There is simply no possible way to do it without
removing so much wealth from the private sector as to thorougly tank the
economy, which will in turn make the problem immeasurably worse.

The truth of this must be recognized and those that ignore the question
should in turn be ignored. They are greedy, twisted people that want to
punish the successful, get thier government cheese and then ignore the
calamity for our children and grand children. And us. They imagine somehow
the beast will continue feeding enough to support them, in spite of what
the vampirism does to the country as a whole.



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