the issue of the flat tax (which is what this is in sheep's clothing), it that it is retrogressive, it hits the poor far more than any other group. Why should they pay for the rich or upper class indulgences? Frankly all the proposal I've seen on this could only be classified as a Poor Tax.
On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "The solution isn't to just raise taxes. It's to also put rules in place to >> safe-guard and penalize against hiding your money to avoid paying the >> taxes." >> >> Or ditch the monstrosity that is the progressive income tax and move to a >> national sales tax. > > I can certainly get behind reforming the tax code to steamline it and > remove most (if not all) of the specialized deductions that keep > adding entropy to the system. I certainly can't agree on the wisdom of > switching from a progressive income tax to a national sales tax > though. A progressive income tax is still, philosophically, the right > way to go in my opinion. Obviously its current implementation leaves > something to be desired. > > Judah > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:348111 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
