(11-06-2024 08:41 PM)chrisd11 Wrote:  I know it will never happen, but I'd like to see the IRS abolished and go to a national sales tax.

It seems like it would please both sides (but I know the left would never agree to it). Buy more stuff (the rich) and you pay more taxes. Buy more expensive stuff and you pay more of the tax bill. Buy less stuff and/or less expensive stuff (the poor) and you pay less taxes.

You get your gross pay, every bit of it tax free, and the sales tax on the stuff you buy goes to the government.

The problem is people on fixed income like social security and small pensions.

I would love to see Trey Gowdy as AG or FBI Director.

(11-07-2024 11:24 PM)banker Wrote:  

(11-06-2024 08:41 PM)chrisd11 Wrote:  I know it will never happen, but I'd like to see the IRS abolished and go to a national sales tax.

It seems like it would please both sides (but I know the left would never agree to it). Buy more stuff (the rich) and you pay more taxes. Buy more expensive stuff and you pay more of the tax bill. Buy less stuff and/or less expensive stuff (the poor) and you pay less taxes.

You get your gross pay, every bit of it tax free, and the sales tax on the stuff you buy goes to the government.

The problem is people on fixed income like social security and small pensions.

Simple. If you don't pay income tax now, such as only SS income, then you are exempted and issued a pass card.

(11-06-2024 01:34 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Liz could seriously wind up in jail.

No she couldn't.

And another lefty shows up.

(11-08-2024 12:24 AM)TripleA Wrote:  And another lefty shows up.

I’m actually enjoying their anguish.

I would prefer Cheney get banished to Ukraine, and see how she fares on the front lines. Send the other "color revolution" advocates with her as well.

(11-07-2024 11:31 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(11-07-2024 11:24 PM)banker Wrote:  

(11-06-2024 08:41 PM)chrisd11 Wrote:  I know it will never happen, but I'd like to see the IRS abolished and go to a national sales tax.

It seems like it would please both sides (but I know the left would never agree to it). Buy more stuff (the rich) and you pay more taxes. Buy more expensive stuff and you pay more of the tax bill. Buy less stuff and/or less expensive stuff (the poor) and you pay less taxes.

You get your gross pay, every bit of it tax free, and the sales tax on the stuff you buy goes to the government.

The problem is people on fixed income like social security and small pensions.

Simple. If you don't pay income tax now, such as only SS income, then you are exempted and issued a pass card.

some of us discussed a tiered system sometime in the wayback ... to be brief, it essentially amounts to the same way the EBT system works ... you don't punish for the necessity items --->>> zero break on 'yachts and such'...

the rich are still going to spend ... if one is serious, you start looking at it from that perspective...