is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
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is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
Could you clarify what you mean? Are you saying let people pick between:
paying property taxes at local level
paying sales taxes at state level
paying income taxes at federal level
Or are you saying let people chose which way to pay (property, sales, or income) and who gets the money (local, state, federal)?
How would sales taxes work in any of those scenarios? How would businesses know wether we have opted to pay sales taxes or not? How would businesses know who the tax money should go to? How would the government know that we had actually been paying the sales taxes? Would the local, state, or federal government have access to our banking records to see when we buy things to check that we are properly paying sales taxes? I don’t think optional sales taxes would be very practical.
Let the people choose which way to pay & which level of government gets those funds. Cap the amount that can be paid in tax of every single individual based on their ability to produce value.
Good point in the sales tax regarding businesses not knowing, though it could be as easy as setting a federal flat sales tax, income tax goes to states, and any sale done online or through a CC/Debit transaction should be easy enough to track.
End of the day any of these should be paid at the end of the year by individuals instead of by others (ie employers paying half of the income tax).
If we didn't change things up, POS systems could easily request that sales tax be paid to the state & ask if your yearly deductible had been met.
In reality a flat tax of some sort is the easiest to make work.
Let the people choose which way to pay & which level of government gets those funds. Cap the amount that can be paid in tax of every single individual based on their ability to produce value.
Good point in the sales tax regarding businesses not knowing, though it could be as easy as setting a federal flat sales tax, income tax goes to states, and any sale done online or through a CC/Debit transaction should be easy enough to track.
End of the day any of these should be paid at the end of the year by individuals instead of by others (ie employers paying half of the income tax).
If we didn't change things up, Point Of Sale systems could easily request that sales tax be paid to the state & ask if your yearly deductible had been met using a tax account/card that tallied the total paid every year.
In reality a flat tax of some sort is the easiest to make work.