12-15-2010, 08:40 AM | #41 |
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12-15-2010, 08:45 AM | #42 |
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| Yep, we both agree on that. A flat percentage is exactly what Paul is advocating for.....which is exactly what is given when a consumer purchases an item. I personally like the ability to control my own taxes and the fact that we'll be gaining income from drug dealers, illegals and all others who don't report their income.
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12-15-2010, 09:00 AM | #43 | |
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Best idea ever. I dont see how anyone could say that sales tax isnt fair across the board. Everyone has to buy stuff sooner or later. The "modesty" proposal would fall on deaf ears for most people, but for those that were raised in modesty it would be really nice to have to "controlling" aspect of it. | |
12-15-2010, 09:32 AM | #44 | |
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Fishy, I'd like to add this to your little analogy. When the guys first started going to the bar the bar owner would take $40 of their bill as his salary, he'd take $20 and invest that in a great bouncer at the front door that kept the people from the "other side of the tracks" out of the bar, because they'd usually just come into the bar and expect to bum cigarettes and beer off of the customers. He'd then take the other $40 and resupply his stock, and make improvements to his bar. When he lowered the customers bill to $80, he kept his $40 salary, he kept paying $40 to upkeep the bar and restock, but he let the bouncer go. Now everytime the guys go to the bar it's full of people from the other side of the tracks begging and stealing like they are owed something. The customers are very annoyed by this, but the bar owner doesn't seem to mind. He says it's alright for these guys to sneak in here because they are just looking for a better bar for themselves, the bars when they are from are not nice at all. | |
12-15-2010, 12:54 PM | #45 | |||
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Grown a garden, raise some animals.....DO WORK! If we had to or wanted to, we could probably raise 85% of what we buy at our local grocery store right in our back yard. The 15% that's left, is it really needed or is it just luxury items? That would put a huge dent in what we would pay in taxes. Shop smart.... Instead of buying fancy name brand clothes, spending thousands every year, buy the material and make your own clothes. It'd be cheaper, so therefore you'd pay less tax. I'm quite certain if a family really wanted to save on taxes, there's allot of other ways to cut corners. No doubt it wouldn't be as luxurious and easy as we have it today, but then again, we wouldn't see as many lazy couch potato's as we do today. You wanna save, get out there and do something for yourself rather than just buying everything. | |||
12-15-2010, 01:01 PM | #46 |
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| Heck, just go to thrift stores. You can find certain stuff for cheap and if you don't no loss. Its worth the same as the sweatshop crap the mall spews out. People should be taxed for being lazy bastards.
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12-15-2010, 01:28 PM | #47 | |
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Right now, NOBODY in this country has a choice.....it's either pay, or go to jail. | |
12-15-2010, 02:26 PM | #48 |
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12-15-2010, 05:55 PM | #49 | |
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but you guys are dead wrong You or the goverment has no buisness curbing my spending. You guys are so sure its gonna be good for the country Guess what YOUR WRONG I work for a buisness as do most others I know now you plan to give people an insentive to NOT BUY thats great for buisness what hurts buisness in turn hurts its employess So besides that FACT that the goverment should tax FAIRLY all people equally. There is another HUGE problem with a consuption tax HHHHHHMMMMMMMM????????? what about all the life saving of seniors,soon to be seniors and everyone else. I have a fair saving,I have ALREADY paid taxes on that money. Now we start a consumption tax,all dollars that have already been taxed would be taxed AGAIN once spent so alot of americans who have saved would have been double taxed also,you think that under the table crap is bad now jusy wait till such a tax code is ever inacted. people will be doing all they can to aviod it. The black market for goods would see a BOOM in buisness Now another thing,I could work,save,work,save ect ecgt ect then go to another country and spend my money Wait,illegals apready send theiort money out of country so go ahead,work save and send it home to help YOUR country FREE OF TAX I know yu guys are smart,I think maybe you already like the idea,and are then not truelly taking in to account how wrong it is on principle YOU AND OR GOVERMENT HAVE NO BUISNESS OR RIGHT TO LEVY FEDERAL TAXES BASED ON A PERSONS WANTS. Oh one more thing Taxes dont go down,they only go up so if you get paid now and pay your taxes before you invest you will pay less in taxes than if you save and pay the tax later Like ira's I pay my taxers befor I open the ira,I dont use it as a shelter,so I only pay tax on its gains. Now my pops has alwys used the ira as a shelter now he is paying a higher tax rate than he would have if he had paid the tax when he opened the ira. lots of those iras was opend when he had me as a dependant now he has no dependants and the tax rate has increased to boot Open your eyes guys,the flat tax is your friend,its simple its fair. it treats everyone the same,doesnt matter @#$%&*! we all would get taxed.......... EQUALLY Ofcourse I have no doubt a consumption tax would never pass,so to me its all smoke But I want you guys to knoe its downfalls its not the best way to tax the flat tax is the best way I tell you what tell me why consuption is more FAIR than a flat tax like it or not,the flat tax is the FAIREST way to tax Last edited by rock hard; 12-15-2010 at 06:13 PM. | |
12-15-2010, 06:32 PM | #50 | |
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Most of the money generated goes overseas or to the World Bank. If people start hoarding money it would be the best thing for Americans. Also the poor hundred billion dollar CEOs won't be able to wipe their butt with silk. Oh the inhumanity! | |
12-15-2010, 06:38 PM | #51 | |||
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All of this is smoke. A flat tax will never pass......fair tax will never pass.....the tax laws will never change with our current political system. The people who run this country reap too many benefits from the current system to want it to change to a new system. Last edited by JeremyH; 12-15-2010 at 06:52 PM. | |||
12-15-2010, 07:38 PM | #52 |
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realy theres 4 guys that drink free beer?!?! **** i must be doing ALOT better than i thought... |
12-15-2010, 08:03 PM | #53 | |
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A ton of people come to this country because they can get away with not paying taxes and reap the benefits that tax paying citizens pay for dearly. There's also a ton of scamming douche bags that make a damn good living, but yet don't pay any taxes. How many of you guys enjoy paying taxes knowing a big chunk of it goes to those that SCAM the system, don't pay any taxes and reap the benefits? Whatever the hell you wanna call it.... make EVERYONE pay taxes. That is truly fair and I think we be surprised at how that would effect the economy today. | |
12-15-2010, 08:19 PM | #54 | |
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12-15-2010, 08:54 PM | #55 | |
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How much of your paycheck goes to taxes right now? 15%? 20%? How much sales tax do you pay when you go shopping? 6%? 8%? 10%? We'll say best case is 21% total, worst case is 30% when everything is said and done. Now, how will doing away with all that and imposing a flat 25% consumption tax be worse? It would be if you were in the 21% group, but we're only talking $4 out of every $100 that you make. Is that enough to keep you from buying that banana hammock you've been eying at the Wal-Mart? Probably not, though we're all hoping it does. If you are in the 30% group, things just got cheaper. Hoo-ray! Banana hammocks for everyone! Saying its not fair that a single person would pay less is like saying its not fair that a single person can ride a 50mpg motorcycle to get around town and have a Corvette in the garage, while you've got to drive a 12mpg 5000 lb steel brick on wheels because you've got kids to haul and your garage is full of crap you haven't unboxed since the last time you moved. You make your choices in life and are responsible for funding them. That's about as fair as it gets. | |
12-15-2010, 09:57 PM | #56 |
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I pay roughly 50 % of my income in taxes right now that is fed,ss med. state,school,regestration,sales,ect. The idea that you are willing to allow no withholdings aon earning to stop people who work under the table is a joke Ok,so to get those few who do work under the table............( I have worked construction all my life,I have worked with,for and know current illegals None of the guys I know wotk inder the table.the # of people working under the table is minimal The rerason is companies big and small like to deduct that money from thier own taxes.)...........to pay taxes,we will let everyone have an opportunity to earn without tax,and send that money out of our economy to be saved/spent elsewhere. I tell you what,out of country buisness would go up.But ours would suffer Now your going to allow people to work free of taxation???? what a joke,the goverment will never,ever do that First off have you ever heard of the old saying 1 in the hand is worth 2 in the bush. So the goverment will allow you to work free of taxes. Now instead of only the under the table people getting be without taxes. All workers can try to fingure out a way around it. You will have people working,and spending very little then hoarding that money to send out of the country. + you never countered my arguement of people who have money that has alreaddy been taxed that is in some form of savings, All that money would be double taxed. I cant believe that so many people think that a fair taxe is based on ones consuption. A single income family would pay out more in taxes than a 2 income family a single person would pay even less. I have homeschooled for 6 yrs. I pay roughly 1500 in books and tuition Would I pay a consumption tax on the books??? supplies???? what about clothing??? This type of code will never be used. But those who think for some reason that it would be benificial to our country,families,children. Your living in a wonderland. So children will do without more,so dad can keep more $$$ Mom will live without that makup to save some $$$$ This would hurt poor americans with family most it would hurt buisness and there for its workers would suffer. people would be double taxed on previously saved income. more money would leave our ecenomy Your fair tax has holes all in it Now what hole is in a flat taxx People who work under the table....and what else?????? Come on guys,you are all smarter tahn to fall for a sales pitch. Last edited by rock hard; 12-15-2010 at 10:21 PM. |
12-15-2010, 10:01 PM | #57 | |
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No,the goverment deciding that some people can or should pay a different % of tax on thier income over another person is what is currently unfair and unfair with a consumption tax only when ever dollar earned is taxed an equal amount is it truelly a fair tax every wage earner paying the same % of tax per dollar earned for every single dollar earned.. it simply doesnt get any simpler and it sure cant get more fair than that. | |
12-15-2010, 10:10 PM | #58 | |
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I prefer toys not rise in cost,or bikes. some kids,families will have to do without to save moreso than now. why??? cuz a earners taxes are based on what they spend,not what the earn so more people who are not so well of will find it even harder to provide. and with people hoarding money ( really great for americans) there will be less commerce,less jobs,more unemployment \ \ \Look our economy grows becouse of commerce,not the lack of people open buisness and hire others as a result of commerce not a lack of. some of You sound like you want to teach/force/pursuade others to save. Its not your job to purshuad anyone,nor is it the goverments job. We are a free country that has thrived on a system of open commmerce. Only when goverment gets involved does real curruption and failure result As the goverment is above the law and reproach. | |
12-15-2010, 10:21 PM | #59 | |
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Dear lord. But you're ok with him being "penalized" for making money? The flat payroll tax you're in love with will have him paying out more with each raise he gets. With the consumption tax he'll be paying the same as everyone else for the things he needs. The difference will come when he starts eyeballing crap he doesn't need. | |
12-15-2010, 10:24 PM | #60 |
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To all the people that get pissed at the ceo's that make millions every year, its called capitalism if you dont like it get out. You have no else to blame but yourself. Also a huge portion of the money they earn is in stock which means if they do a crap job their bonus goes down the toilet. I work as a contractor at western unions headquarters, and the last ceo brought home around a million dollars in income plus 60 million in stock. If they pull the stock out right away they pay the 25% tax so they will keep most if not all of the stock and pull out a little at a time. Its a lot of money but she didn't get there sitting on her ass doing nothing. Proof of this is the fact that she has been there for 8 years and has help double its revenue.
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