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Should ALL citizens pay income taxes?

Should ALL citizens have to pay income taxes?

  • No, only those who make over the "living wage"

    Votes: 24 35.3%
  • No, only those in the top 10%

    Votes: 3 4.4%
  • Yes, every working person should have to pay.

    Votes: 22 32.4%
  • Other (specify)

    Votes: 19 27.9%

  • Total voters
    68

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What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?

Since income is taxed then everyone should be taxed.
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?

Why the hell can we not tax everyone 10% of their income? Just a percentage which stays the same, across the board.
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?

I used to think so but I've thought of something a bit more constructive.

I think that those who want full citizenship privileges should have to pay taxes and/or do something positive for the community yearly.
Now that doesn't mean you lose your rights to free speech, assembly etc.
With my idea you do lose other things like voting, the ability to carry a concealed weapon and some other things I haven't thought of.

I think full citizenship should be earned not given.
You can tell that difference between born citizens and naturalized citizens of the U.S.

Born citizens seem to take everything we have for granted.
 
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What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?

Only corporations should pay income tax.
 
We should abolish the I.R.S.
 
Why the hell can we not tax everyone 10% of their income? Just a percentage which stays the same, across the board.

Because 10% off of a poor person means the difference between them being able to eat and being able to pay their heating bill while 10% off a rich person means they buy one fewer vacation home.
 
Everybody should have to pay taxes, but if you are unemployed, you would have to pay less.
 
Everybody should have to pay taxes, but if you are unemployed, you would have to pay less.
What is the logic of requiring people to pay money if they arent making any?

I mean I realize the unemployed may fritter their savings away on silly things like food, rent, and utilities but I've never understood why people demand money of people who dont have any and aren't immediately in a position to get any.
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?

Well, here's the thing. The poor and the middle class pay more in consumption taxes than the wealthy. Because there are a larger number of poor and middle class, they pay more in sales tax and the like. So I think that unless we want to implement "luxury taxes" on high priced items and services so that the wealthy pays more in consumption taxes, we should keep it as it is.
 
Because 10% off of a poor person means the difference between them being able to eat and being able to pay their heating bill while 10% off a rich person means they buy one fewer vacation home.



As much as it pains me to admit this, this is correct.

Even if we cut the budget in half, 10% probably wouldn't be adequate to fund the Fed, let alone the States. Right now gov at every level combined consumes more like 40%.

But even if we could make it 10%, there are people who are working hard but barely keeping their head above water, and 10% would push them under.

Consider a single parent with a couple of kids and a household income of $20,000... barely enough to get by. 10% would be two thousand dollars... well, this person would have to drop their health insurance, struggle to pay their basic bills and buy groceries, and hope their used car didn't need repairs, because the gov't just took away what little surplus income they had.

I'm not crazy about progressive tax, but a straight 10% or 20% or whatever just wouldn't cut it, and without some consideration for the poor it would push millions of heads underwater.

No one's tax bill should break them.
 
I say yes, just to make things more fair, but the rate for people who are living around the poverty line should be extremely low.
 
When I was poor I needed every cent. I thank God for the earned income credit, which helped offset the SS tax.

I believe in a graduated tax system where the rich pay a higher rate.
 
Taxes should only be collected from those who use the infrastructure of the US to make profits . So it would mostly come from domestic and foreign companies who sell here.
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?

Absolutely. Let's go back to the poll tax era. Because, god knows, that worked well.

:doh
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?
of course not.

A Christian Argument for Progressive Taxation - Diana Butler Bass - God's Politics Blog

No, taxes aren’t such a bad deal. Nor are they, as might have been heard at the ersatz “tea parties” around the country, at odds with Christianity. Indeed, tax day is a day that progressives should celebrate — as we participate in one of the greatest social reforms of the 20th century: the progressive income tax.
 
What is the logic of requiring people to pay money if they arent making any?

I mean I realize the unemployed may fritter their savings away on silly things like food, rent, and utilities but I've never understood why people demand money of people who dont have any and aren't immediately in a position to get any.

It will motivate them to get a job. The money that they owe won't earn interest. They can pay it off over time.
 
What do you think? Should all [working] people who want to live in our country be required to pay income tax?
using the liberal argument for the moment.

Everyone benefits from the government, so everyone should contribute towards the servces provided by same.

Anything else is just social engineering based on some version of morality.
 
Why the hell can we not tax everyone 10% of their income? Just a percentage which stays the same, across the board.
We can - nothing stops us.

The real question then becomes if we do that, how will the liberals pay for all of their social programs?
 
I can't completely prescribe to the libertarian notion that there shouldn't be an income tax, but it should be greatly lower than what it is now.

Consider a single parent with a couple of kids and a household income of $20,000

No I won't. If you can't afford to even take care of yourself, it's at least negligent and borderline criminal to bring someone else into the world that depends on something you cannot give them.
 
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