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Offline Toad

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« Reply #30 on: December 02, 2004, 02:14:04 PM »
Lots of ways to do things Muck.

The flat tax would let you exempt folks at certain income levels for instance.

The sales tax might only apply to things not considered "necessities" for example. Nutritional type food items exempt but tobacco taxed. Clothing below certain price points taxed but $100 blue jeans taxed.

Hey if we can have a 6000 page Tax Code now, I'm SURE they can complicate these simple ideas.  ;)
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« Reply #31 on: December 02, 2004, 02:27:03 PM »
Good points Toad!

Your right though, would we just be trading one bad bloated system for another?

Funny example:  Say food is exempt from sales tax.  Pictures this at your car dealership ...

"Come down and buy this loaf of bread and get your new car free.   Loaf costs 35K."  lol   I know this would never happen but it is funny.
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« Reply #32 on: December 02, 2004, 02:31:31 PM »
Ah, but they key would be simplicity, not 6000 pages of "but if" stuff.

Flat tax? Everybody that makes less than $XXXXX pays none.

Sales tax? Not on food items or medicine; exemptions like that.

Stuff that wouldn't take 600,000 tax accountants to figure out how to file correctly. Yeah.. put H&R Block out of business.

How could it be worse than what we have now? ;)
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« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2004, 02:39:47 PM »
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...Stuff that wouldn't take 600,000 tax accountants to figure out how to file correctly. Yeah.. put H&R Block out of business...


Do you really think their lobbyists will ever let this happen?  I don't, but then I may be too cynical.
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« Reply #34 on: December 02, 2004, 02:47:02 PM »
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One interesting thing to consider.

"Rev.13:

16:  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."


A national sales tax could bring us closer to making this a possibility.

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« Reply #35 on: December 02, 2004, 03:11:48 PM »
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Do you really think their lobbyists will ever let this happen? I don't, but then I may be too cynical.
Yeah true, but then again, I thought people would never re-elect a president that out and out lied to the american people that led them into an unecessary war.  

But that is another thread all together and "All I have to say about that."  ( Forest Gump mode off)
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