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do you admit or deny that the current system promotes a scenario where politicians buy the votes of the many by promising them that "others" will bear the burden of paying for the increased spending?
and its income taxes that serve as the basis of most of the political discussion.
right now its a house of cards that is gonna collapse and the only way to stop that is to make increased government spending painful for everyone, not just the 2% who cannot outvote the people who continue to enable expansion of the government
I don't deny that we're in trouble, and that part of the reason is how taxes are handled. It isn't the only part though... spending is the other half. The way we allow politicians to spend other people's money to buy votes through pork and special-intrest subsidy is at least half the issue.
Progressive tax has the problem of people carrying unequal burdens of the cost of government and public works.
Flat tax has the problem that it will impact the ability of the not-so-prosperous to even survive, if the rate is set high enough to support the kind of government spending that has been going on for most of a century, or even half that much.... and the kind of budget cuts (30-60%) that would make a flat tax a bearable burden by the poor are probably just not realistic.... I mean, there's no reason to believe it is actually going to happen.
Denying franchise to those whose tax burden is only 5 or 10%, and that mostly from property tax, sales tax, SS/MC tax, would be no way of handling it either. They're still paying taxes, even if it isn't income tax.
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