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My View as to What is Wrong
I was listening to a newscast on NPR this afternoon and it got me to thinking a little bit (as a distraction from the research work with my animals I was trying to find a way to avoid for a few minutes). The progam was discussion tax reform. Here is my very simple notion of what should be done from all the various items I have read over the years:
1. Make a flat tax on income for EVERYONE. Rich or poor. This flat tax would be based on yearly income.
2. Make a flat tax on income of ALL businesses. Small or large, it does not matter. And make it illegal/impossible to have states pull the old (and in my opinion assinine) trick of trying to lure businesses to their state by gifting them with some sort of huge (often 100%) tax break for bringing jobs to their state.
3. Take away all the nonsense about health care and have a SINGLE health care system (my preference would be government run) that gives EVERY PERSON the same exact health care as everyone else... this is for rich or poor. And, do not allow any "buy ins" for better care for the wealthy.
If we did the above, the estimates I have read and believe to be logical suggest each and every person/business would end up paying a flat tax of 19%. Who the hell can argue the logic, fairness, and viability of something so damn simple?
Unfortunately it is only a pipe dream and it will never happen. But I smoke a pipe, so... I am allowed these pipe dreams. This more than anything else would improve the life of people in our nation.
PipeTobacco
4 Comments:
I agree with your post but it's not going to happen. You know damn good and well that the politicians would still get better health care than the rest of us do.
You can bet your ass that we are the ones that are going to pay all the medical bills for the senator in Arizona that just got shot.
If you had been there and been one of the victims they would take all they could from your insurance company and then pestered you for the rest of it.
There's a lot of sense in this. A simplified tax system would save a huge amount of money for everyone, it would probably generate more tax revenue. But, I can say for sure there would be a riot from the political left if we did this in the UK; they're obsessed with progressive tax rates, tax credits & so on. That more complicated tax regimes make it easier for the rich to evade tax seems to have gone completely over their head!
Logic and Washington DC are mutually exclusive clubs.
What you say makes far too much sense to ever be allowed to happen!!
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