Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Finnigann
From : richardw
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 10:11 am

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Finnigann to Sam Alexander on Tue Sep 20 2005 06:33 am

 >  SA> Hi guys -- I read your thread about taxes, and hope you don't mind
 >  SA> another opinion on this.  I honestly think there should be a tax based
 >  SA> on the percentage of what you make and not on what you buy.  It seems
 >  SA> that we often get triple or quadruple taxed.  We get taxed on our
 >  SA> salary, then taxed on what we spend our salary on.  Then at the end of
 >  SA> the year if we didn't pay in what the government thinks we owe we pay
 >  SA> in more.  Plus what's with all the fee's like to fish, get married,
 >  SA> etc.  I can see paying a fee to enter a park or church for the
 >  SA> services, but why does the state/government get it's chunk?
 > 
 >  SA> I think if they made it flat ... 20% to federal and 5-10% to state
 >  SA> right off the top with no sales tax, we'd be good.  Also instead of
 >  SA> saying $X is for education, $X is for military, etc, have it to where
 >  SA> 0.05% of your taxes are for this or that.  This means the more folks
 >  SA> work the more goes back into each government aided program.  People can
 >  SA> see where their dollars are going.
 > 
 >  SA> Just my thoughts on this.
 > 
 > It'd be pretty hard for the admin to run a deficet if it was like that. Also
 > sudden, unplanned expensises, not in the budget would stop government. Such 
 > the unfunded war or the unfunded relief to Katrina survivors.

Ever heard of a deficit?  Government won't stop, it just goes into debt.

 > If someone says taxes are bad, it means that either one two things; they don
 > want to spend the money on the programs congress voted for OR they don't wan
 > to pay for them theirselves.

Or they're tired of paying for pork.

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