Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Missouri opposes it so much that it will be on the ballot in 2012. It is > being researched in GA. Other states are looking at it too. >
You continue to miss the point by conflating that which shan't be conflated: behaviors in a heterogeneous tax environment (feds, income tax; states, sales tax), and behaviors in a homogeneous tax environment (both feds and states in, say, an income tax model) Said another way, if states and the feds adopt the same tax scheme (be it income or sales), it creates a natural economy of scale for people looking to avoid the tax. If I can avoid state income tax the by default I'm avoid federal income tax. This has been historically avoided by mixing tax schemes. Mixing also has the benefit of feeding taxes in bite-sized chunks. In other words, if you pay a yearly income tax and a daily sales tax it doesn't have the same impact as a single large bill and is thus more acceptable. If a state's sales tax, be it a Fair tax or a sales tax or a VAT, suddenly jumps by 25% people will complain. And if they complain which ones gets lowered? The new fed tax or the old state tax? If a new federal tax scheme isn't bringing in the revenue needed (like now), then prices will rise! That's going ALWAYS can people to cry out. What's the release valve? Easing the state rate. And that's the proble ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340028 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
