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An Idea For Taxes (US)

Harshaw said:
They don't, though.
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The FDA, and taxes are a large way the feds interfere in everyday life. Constitutionally the government can regulate commerce. The supreme court ruled a person is not allowed to grow as much wheat as the person sees fit for the persons own use. Yea, they do.

To break it down every time I am working and earning money, or transacting money, the government is interfering. As well as what I am consuming.
 
i prefer income taxes; preferably the marginal rates from the 1990s. those were still historically low. on the other hand, our corporate rates are idiotic when compared with the rest of the first world. they need to be cut to a competitive level and collected from all corporations, not just the ones too small to get around the tax. also, all personal income should be taxed as income above a cap to keep professional investors from avoiding the marginal rates.
 
Pozessed said:
The FDA, and taxes are a large way the feds interfere in everyday life. Constitutionally the government can regulate commerce. The supreme court ruled a person is not allowed to grow as much wheat as the person sees fit for the persons own use. Yea, they do.
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Yes, Wickard v. Filburn is an abomination.

To break it down every time I am working and earning money, or transacting money, the government is interfering. As well as what I am consuming.
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That's not really speaking to what I said.
 
Harshaw said:
Yes, Wickard v. Filburn is an abomination.



That's not really speaking to what I said.
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This was more or less my point. If no other country would consider themselves sovereign if the US feds could enforce the laws they enforce upon the states, the states can't be sovereign.To me, it could be compared to a person claiming the sun is the moon, and telling scientists that because the moon and sun are out at the same time the sun is in fact the moon.
 
Pozessed said:
I think it may be easier for our states to be taxed as opposed to the citizens directly. I think the states should report their data to the IRS and the IRS should tax the states via how many people are employed and contributing to the state. Then the government could apply a tax to the state that reflects the working population.
So say Rhode Island has only 100 tax paying citizens and they all contributed 30% of their paycheck to federal institutions, i.e taxes, medicaid, social security. It would be up to the state to collect those funds from its citizens as opposed to the government in my exchange. The government would take it's 30% from the states budget as opposed to the citizens. The state could decide how to best earn this money, via taxes, or other means.
I think this may be a better idea than our current practice because as is the federal government is trying to do a job the states could already be doing for them. Any organization should have a trusted and efficient form of delegation. I allege that our current practice of collecting and distributing taxes could be better delegated if the states were the only entities paying the feds rather than each citizen. There would obviously have to be some provisions on how the states can and can not collect taxes, but I think there are laws and amendments already in place to safe guard most over reach of power.

Just a thought. Sorry if this has been discussed before, I didn't see anything similar when I did a search.
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Also, if a state fails to secure and/or pay their federal tax, all other states would be required to tax the businesses imported and exported from the state that owes taxes in an effort to collect the tax owed. This seems very flawed, but a thought that might be worth adding.
 
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