(03-30-2022 03:23 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 03:10 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 02:57 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 02:55 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(03-30-2022 02:51 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  The surest way to reduce tax avoidance is to make taxation simple (so that compliance is close to effortless), broad (so that there's not much room to escape it), and relatively low-rate (so that there'a not much incentive to escape it). Every economist has known this for a century or so. But since tax policy is determined primarily by favor-seeking, we get a tax code that is the opposite in every respect.

Co-sign.

Of course, my Fair Tax plan is simple, broad, and relatively low-rate.

I'm going to hold you to my question of pointing out where I did what you accused me of doing, OO.

Oh, dear me, isn't insisting on answers the sort of thing you found so terrible of me, 93?

I think we can clear this up with two simple questions and your answers.

A. should some people pay more in taxes than others?

B. If so, should those people get more benefits than the ones who pay less?

If your answers are yes and then no, then, you are saying some people should pay more for the same benefits.

If your answers are yes/yes or no/no, then indeed I have misunderstood you and will present you with a hearty apology.

What are your answers?

Well.... I have asked 93 a specific question on the 'loans' as income that I havent gotten an answer to. Perhaps 93 might want to circle back to that in his apparent dogged pursuit to make sure that no questions remained unanswered, and to not appear to be wholly hypocritical in that pursuit.