what do you think about tax reform?
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Read Neal Boortz's book "The Fair Tax".  \nThe fair tax gets rid of all federal income and payroll taxes and replaces it with a 23% consumption tax.  \n\nPeople get a prebate each month to cover taxes on the basic necessitys of life. \n\nYou get your whole check (gross) not just net.\n\nCorporate taxes presently account for 23% of an items price now.  That would disappear so you would be paying about the same for everything.\n\nAnd with no corporate taxes America would become the worlds biggest tax shelter.  Industries would be running over each other to set up shop in the US.\n\nCheck it out.\n\nMy 2 cents
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The heart of your thinking I think would be best applied through strengthening the workers in this country (and thus the broad tax base) A strong family that is secure in it's health and it's retirement will turn their thoughts away from a day to day struggle that pursists today, and toward their surroundings. This would greatly help us to address other issues such as the environment and poverty right here at home. There should be a worker's rights amendment. The right to cheap health coverage. The right to job saftey. The right to a living wage. I think the fastest way to get this sort of broad based reform done is through organisation. Not like a classical union. More like an association that would draw together to leverage certain trhings from our government. Like a group that is millions strong would be able to negotiate better health coverage than even a large corporation could. Starting there and with similar issues that could be achieved through a voter soliderity almost like that of a union, but a little bit more effective, and with a different mission. It wouldn't be done through the work place, but at home so there couldn't be any kind of adverse reactions from corporates and the like. As long as you work and pay taxes, you would be eligable for membership. And with success, taking bigger bites at the apple. AAnd who knows, maybe something like that would end up putting a fire into our 2 party system of government. Or perhaps replace it altogether.
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We need fair tax.  I feel that sales tax is the best way. Barring that a simple income tax without deductions. We spend more on tax enforcement each year than education. If you added in the cost of incarceration of tax offenders then you would find we could send millions of Americans to college for free with what we waste on the IRS and tax enforcement. \n\nEach American wastes money and time with taxes. All the while hoping they did it right. Even if they did there is risk of an audit and even if they made their best effort to comply with the law and were completely honest there is a risk they could face huge fines or worse for honest mistakes.   So it saps our productivity and leaches money from the economy for parasites like tax lawyers. \n\nLast we pay through the nose at the check out counter. The legions of accountants and tax lawyers needed by companies just to deal with the IRS nightmare costs each of us every time we buy anything. \n\nAs for the poor, they'll pay less tax really. The middle class considerably less. The rich more and many companies and people who skate tax free will have to pay their share. Billions will be availible to reduce the defficiet, fund tax cuts or be used for other needs.
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I like that Sequoia. I would do the same. Raise the state tax and loose the property tax.\n\n\n\ndp
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Isn't it amazing how Bill Gates, the Walton (Walmart) family, and thousands of others became billionaires or multi-millionaires under the old system of progressive taxation?\n\nImposing a "flat tax" or "vat" or "sales tax" will only shift the burden to the poor and middle class.\n\nWe should restore the old tax code we used to use to provide an incentive for wealthy people to use their wealth to create businesses and jobs in the US rather than encouraging them to invest in China or other places outside the US.
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I would get rid of the current tax system.  The government taxes differently according to income; so, not only do people on welfare get MY tax money, they also, don't have to pay the percentage of taxes that I do, if any at all.  I would also change the welfare system.  The current system is ridiculous; it encourages people to get pregnant and shoot out as many kids as they can, so they can get more money.  People on welfare should get NO MORE than what they would make at a minimum wage job, because, hey, they're not working for it.  Also, they should only be eligible for a certain about of time, say, 1 year, to give them time to get back on their feet.  Then say, they shouldn't be eligible for another 3-5 years after that.  Some people get a four year degree from a college and make less that what people are getting off welfare.  Does that not bother anyone else???\n\nNo! I would not end the war.  I think it's necessary for the safety of democracy.
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fiscal imbalance\nconstitutional reform
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First, I disagree with your postcard statement.  It is going to cost the government a lot of money to collect tax given the current way things are managed and the available resources.  Quite frankly, things are not 100% technically advanced which leads to reduced efficiencies.  However, e-filing continues to set records within the IRS helping to alleviate some of the cost.   Redesign to put forms in "postcard" form would cost far too much.\n\nAs far as flat tax, it depends.  If people could get used to it in simplistic form, then yes it might work.  The sad part is that Congress and others would then try to submit "exceptions to the rule" like, we shouldn't tax poor people, we shouldn't tax real estate, we shouldn't tax businesses who don't make money.  Very soon, we would be right back to the system which is in place.  What a lot of people don't realize is that they might pay as much or more with a flat tax system.\n\nThe current system is overly complex and could use a good simplification.
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Check out and support the best bill ever introduced in congress: The Fair Tax! HR 25 S 25\n\nIt will eliminate all other Federal taxes and replace it with a sales tax on new items and services.  I think it would be the best thing that has ever happened to our economy!  Check out the link!\n\nNo income tax, no deductions, no paperwork.
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I do not like the current system that penalizes those who work harder and earn more.\n\nI am a proponent of the Flat Tax, where everyone who earns more than $20,000.00 per year gets taxed at exactly the same percentage rate. No loopholes. Keep the tax system simple. Reduce the size of the IRS, because a more simple tax system means there is not as much of a need for a huge government agency/beauracracy to oversee it.
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Most people voted for "change". That is what the Dem's promised... The question is What change..  The economy- Best its ever been\nUnemployment-Lowest its ever been\nTax breaks-Dem's promise to increase taxes\n  We will have to wait and see what "change" is , good or bad it was never explained just promised..
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Yes.  The IRS has documented that the top 50% of earners pay 96% of all the income taxes.  The top 1% pay more than a third!  So the argument to tax more of the wealthy people really isn't practical.  And when tax cuts are given, the wealthy are more likely to reinvest it and create jobs -- shouldn't they get back a proportional amount if they pay the most?  And because the bottom 50% pay so little comparatively, a tax cut to that tax bracket doesn't do much good.  But I'd take it if given!\n\nBottom line:  The suggestion to tax the wealthy even MORE than they're taxed now is only political rhetoric.  It gets the vote of the poor and lower middle class.
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No! Countries which have national health have oppressive tax bases and the systems are highly ineffective and unresponsive. I believe that we should look into to insurance and medical reform. Pricing structures should be examined. For example why should insurance companies be allowed to pay one price to doctors while people off the street must pay more. \nInsurance coverage should be made affordable for all wishing it, perhaps in the form of a government group plan which leverages large scale buying power much the same way as corporations do. \nWe should also review medical savings accounts. Contribution should be allowed to carry over from year to year allowing people to build medical nest eggs. Currently the plan allows tax free contributions, but they are lost if not used in a particular calendar year.\n\nThere are many things we can do to help make Health Care more affordable and available to all in this country, but creating what would be the largest entitlement in American history is not the answer.
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Boy am i with you look at the question i asked a couple of hours ago!!!!\n\nI'm sick to the back teeth of handing all our hard earned wages over to them.\n\nWe will be taxed the "AIR" we breathe before long, and i don't think that is to far retched!!!\n\n\nI am with you all the way, good luck to you and yours.\n\nAnd this is to the people "Who have obviously have a few quid in their pocket" \nIt's not that we don't expect to pay tax, stop being so jumped up!!!\n\nWe are just fed up of getting screwed over????
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I am a small business owner. I never got any tax refund. My taxes are now so complicated that I could never do them myself.\n\nAlso, I depend on industry in the US for my business. Since W has taken office I would guess well over 50% of my clients have closed their doors and moved their operations to China.\n\nMy phones are being tapped.\nMy country is feared around the world. \nWe are the laughingstock of so called "democratic" countrys\nMany more reasons that make this country less democratic and more fascist.\nThe internet is about to be taken over by big communications firms and they will sell bandwidth to the highest bidder.
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I have used for the past few years and TurboTax and been very happy.\n\nI have a friend who tried H&R Block and got very confused, ended up just buying Turbo Tax.
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I think obviously millions of people are,but if we dont pay this way then we would end up paying around 30% income tax.\nwhich would you prefer?