Recently, a book was written advocating the abolition of income tax and all of it's frustrating complexities for a national sales tax:
Eliminating the income tax in favor of a national sales tax is only a tax shift… all of the expenditures and bureaucratic inefficiencies are still there. Why not eliminate the national income tax, and make the national sales tax somewhere around 10 to 15 percent? We could phase out many superfluous programs like Medicare and Medicaid; privatize social security (see my attached plan), and cut pork.
It frustrates me to see my money going towards lawn mower races in Hoboken, New Jersey in the form of kickbacks… er, sorry, “Pork”… and it doesn’t matter how they get my money, just that they get my money irritates me.
Not to go off on a tangent, but regarding sales in general: The government wants control of your personal life. If they can’t micromanage your personal decisions via income tax deductions and breaks, then they will do it with a national ID card, required for all purchases that they deem interesting.
Think about it… an electronic record for the big brother attorney general’s office to look at and say, “Hmm… he checked out a book called ‘Understanding Islam’, time for a wire tap! Look! He also purchased a 24 pack of Trojans yesterday! Hey Alberto, get a kick out of this!
Either way, it is wrong. We need less government, and fewer laws, not more. A smaller government means smaller operating costs means lower taxes all by itself.
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What about your granparents who have worked all their life and paid into the s.s. system? Don't they deserve medicaid if they need it?
SS System? A Ponzi scheme by any other name would probably smell about the same.
The difference between a private Ponzi and a government Ponzi is that more people get hurt when the government Ponzi collapses.
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