On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:02:32 -0500, DSK wrote:

A flat rate income tax sounds great until you look at it in any detail,
when you realize that it would have to be be around 28% in order to not
have a tremendous shortfall. Also, the morality sucks... it is
effectively a penalty on the less wealthy.


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Yeah, but think of the possibilities!! You can have a tax on a tax on
a tax like we have here in Connecticut - effectively triple taxes!!!!

YAY!!!!

You're a strange dude.

Thank you for noticing.

As long as any government looks at taxes as "revenue", it ceases to be
government and becomes a corporation. The system we have now is just
as regressive - people just don't know it.

I was serious about that tax on a tax on a tax thing. We have it here
in Connecticut on several high volume items. We also have an
interesting little known aspect to the sales tax. If you purchase an
item, as a gift for example, and it goes beyond thirty days before
that item is returned unused, you can't reclaim the sales tax even if
you have a receipt for the item. It's considered a "use" tax.

I'd rather have a straight flat tax system of some sort to prevent
this kind of nonsense.

Personally, I like Dave Barry's tax proposal... give all IRS agents
inexpensive small caliber handguns, and send them out in the streets to
"collect taxes" directly from the citizens pockets.

Hey - it worked for the Sheriff of Nottingham - until that *******
Robin Hood screwed everything up.

Later,

Tom