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IF YOU COULD RE-CREATE YOUR COUNTRY'S TAX CODE FROM SCRATCH, HOW WOULD YOU DO IT?

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IF YOU COULD RE-CREATE YOUR COUNTRY'S TAX CODE FROM SCRATCH, HOW WOULD YOU DO IT?


[+] ballot by AMSearch
created Mon Feb 28, 05

Let's say you could wipe the slate clean and start over. How would you structure your country's taxes?

No taxes - fund gov't by voluntary contributions
Replace ALL taxes (sales, prop, income) with a flat tax on income - everyone pays same % of income
Replace ALL taxes with a national sales tax
Replace ALL taxes with a tax on negative externalities - if you pollute, you pay for health care etc
Keep the tax code the same as it is now.
Keep same system as now, but end all loopholes, deductions, and write-offs
Replace ALL taxes with tariffs - tax foreigners, not own citizens
Tax the rich, end or much less on poor/middle clas


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I think the problem with a flat tax as Republicans have pushed it is that it doesn't do away with regressive taxes like sales tax, payroll tax, gas taxes, etc. So it ends up being another tax cut for the rich and tax hike on everyone else.

If you could wipe all those taxes out and just pay one flat tax on your income, that seems to be to be pretty fair.
by AMSearch on Mon Feb 28, 05 11:55am [+]

No income taxes. People pay for what they use directly.
by thc2883 on Mon Feb 28, 05 12:02pm [+]

Tax all foreigners living abroad.
by herzog on Mon Feb 28, 05 12:08pm [+]

Taxes should come from use whenever possible: tax gas to pay for roads for example.

To pay for everything else we should have a flat transaction tax, it's automatic like a sales tax but applied every time money changes hands (trading stocks, paying an employee, buying a burrito at taco bell, etc).

This system was invented by an economist and it looks pretty logical; a tiny percentage of every dollar you spend (I think it came to about .6%) would be automatically taken by the government. It would pretty much wipe out the IRS and all it's expenses, and largely eliminate loopholes and tax evasion. Besides which you don't have to file your taxes every year.
by herzog on Mon Feb 28, 05 12:12pm [+]

Cut out all the loopholes- right on the nail!
by Truthseeker013 on Mon Feb 28, 05 5:19pm [+]

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