The problem isn’t the tax. It’s the government.
On the one hand we have the war mongering republican that if left unchecked will spend all of our wealth on world domination... Just Google wolfowitz cabal, a bunch of right wing crazy people who actually have a written doctoring of world domination. If left to them, we would never build bridges, or schools, we would spend all our money on bombs and bombers.
On the other hand we have the socialist Democratic Party, who believes that it is government’s job to control everything and want to create systems where sameness is the rule rather than equality. Bottom line they stand for big government for government. In their point of view everything should be so called “fair” according to their doctrine, not according to human inclinations of free markets. Fair, as long as they can exempt themselves from it. Crooks.
In the end both of them know just how to do one thing. Spend, Spend, Spend, and then... Ooops... We spent too much... lets figure out a new tax, a new way to reach a little deeper in peoples pockets.
Then they do what all politicians do. LIE.
Every one of them will tell you that they won’t tax the middle class... Every one of them aims squarely at the middle class with every tax increase. It’s simple; there is more money to be had by taking a little from every middle class person then by taking a lot from the few rich.
This could be made a lot better.
1) Take away congresses power to spend. Make everything a proposition voted by the people 1, man, 1 vote on the internet.
2) Move to a consumption tax. A national sales tax say 17%. Exempt food, energy, health care and housing. Tax everything else, extra tax on things like luxury cars, and other luxury items.
3) Have a 1 page income reconciliation return. If your income is below a threshold... (Say 50K) you get back a pre-calculated amount of the sales tax you paid or may have paid.
4) Add a small alternative minimum tax (say 3%) for incomes above say $500,000 Joint.
This way, the poor pay nothing, everyone else pays more the more they spend. The rich and the ones near becoming rich, pay a little extra.
Create a constitutional amendment that prohibits congress or any faction of the government from EVER increasing those set percentages. If they need more, figure out how to get the country to grow so there will be more.
Probably not the answer but just an idea.
Just taxing, will only lead to them spending that money too and then coming back around asking for another new tax.
Left unchecked government is ultimately corrupt.
Just look at NY State. They have the MTA a private train company. They didn’t have enough money, so NY made people who lived hundreds of miles away, and never used the train pay a special MTA tax.... It was struck down in the Supreme Court 2 year latter as unconstitutional... Do you think they gave the money back..... Na...
