Socialism - Ideas so good they need to be mandatory!
What the hell are you talking about?
Socialism - Ideas so good they need to be mandatory!
Socialism - Ideas so good they need to be mandatory!
I have a more interesting question then why are our taxes so high. My question is: Why do we tax income and property in the first place? It makes no sense at all.
Why would that not make sense?
If you tax income you are taxing work. Work and jobs are a good thing and should be encouraged.
If you tax property you are taxing the success of that work and also killing the freedom of private property. If you don't think property taxes is an impediment to ownership of private property, try not paying your county property taxes and sees what happens to your home.
The only reason for these two taxes is that they are easy to tax.
Sales, use and consumption taxes are what this nation started with and that ought to be good enough. If that means we have to reduce the size and scope of the various governments.....so be it.
Sales, use, and consumption taxes are taxes on trade. Trade is a good thing and should be encouraged. If you tax trade you are interfering with the law of comparative advantage, forcing people to work in inefficient ways. This isn't taxed more because it's easy to avoid.
I don't have the slightest clue why the argument of 'this is how they did it more than two centuries ago' is a good reason for doing it today, as the world now is a very different place than it was in 1789. They also used bloodletting to cure illness in the 1700s and 1800s, should that be an argument for its use today?
I agree, medicine has changed. Commerce has not.
We pay too much in taxes. We tax the wrong things. The federal government is way too intrusive and spends way too much.
I agree, medicine has changed. Commerce has not.
We pay too much in taxes. We tax the wrong things. The federal government is way too intrusive and spends way too much.
what is it with all the alts lately?
Socialism - Ideas so good they need to be mandatory!
You seriously don't think commerce has changed in the last two centuries?
I don't really care if you think we pay too much in taxes, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
If you tax income you are taxing work. Work and jobs are a good thing and should be encouraged.
If you tax property you are taxing the success of that work and also killing the freedom of private property. If you don't think property taxes is an impediment to ownership of private property, try not paying your county property taxes and sees what happens to your home.
The only reason for these two taxes is that they are easy to tax.
Commerce is the same, only the products have changed.
So you think our taxes are at the right level or do you think taxes should be raised?
I have to pay taxes to support military layabouts like yourself, so it looks like socialism is already working really good for you.
Do all the special ones live in texas?
What the hell are you talking about?
We should tax fail. Your tax rate would be 90% though.
Are taxes about right or should they be raised?
If we did that, the bottom 50% would actually start giving a shit about how tax money is spent, since they'd be in the upper bracket.
So now all government is socialism? Got it, at least we clarified your position. It's either socialism or anarchy, right?
PS - Military is one of the enumerated functions of government, and I work for my paycheck.
PPS - I also have a career in the private sector, and I pay taxes too. I know! Unheard of!
I'm going to take what you have and give it to somebody else. I am doing this because it is a good idea. Because it is such a good idea, I do it at the point of a gun.
Dumbed down enough for you?
Commerce is the same, only the products have changed.
So you think our taxes are at the right level or do you think taxes should be raised?
1) I tend to avoid new posters until they shed their trollish foreskin, unfortunately it usually takes more than 8 days. It's ok, I've been there. But this is the last you'll hear directly from me for a while.
2) Oh, they absolutely need to go up on some people.
