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Currently the poorest pay little to no income tax

Posted on: May 26, 2017 at 16:20:21 CT
MrBlueSky MU
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if you institute a 28% national sales tax for example, that would be a HUGE increase for the majority of low income Americans.
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I could tolerate a flat tax of 15%(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:37:47
     keep your hands out of my pockets (nm) - pickle MU - 5/26 16:03:12
          If he were young, blonde and had big tits would - TigerMatt STL - 5/26 18:32:43
          I was waiting for you to chime in(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:05:10
     I've got plenty of problems with all sorts of taxes - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 5/26 16:02:21
     Put it on a post card - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 5/26 15:59:50
          National sales tax - JG A - 5/26 16:02:57
               People don't - Zeaux MWSC - 5/26 16:05:28
               At 30%?(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:03:26
                    There would be some deductions for food - JG A - 5/26 16:05:40
                         Friggin drug dealers would be chipping in(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:06:36
          If it can be lower make it happen. Also no self employment - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:02:20
     There would have to be zero deductions - JG A - 5/26 15:48:35
          I know. (nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:49:39
     I favor the National Sales Tax idea.. - Spanky KU - 5/26 15:47:44
          Sales tax and flat taxes are extremely - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:02:06
               You look at it backwards. They will still receive - tman KC - 5/26 21:12:34
               Because poor people have to pay something instead - Spanky KU - 5/26 16:31:35
                    Poor folks pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes - raskolnikov MU - 5/26 19:03:07
                    No, because poor people will have to pay a - tiger98 MU - 5/26 18:27:01
                    Because poor people pay a higher % of their income - SparkyStalcup MU - 5/26 16:54:12
                         and? Is that my problem? Why must i - Spanky KU - 5/26 17:22:18
                              Shouldn't we at least try to be fair? Flat tax is - tiger98 MU - 5/26 18:29:51
                                   a consumption tax is fair. Exclude food and move on - Spanky KU - 5/26 20:17:19
               how so? - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 16:18:14
                    You love to say things like - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:21:16
                         Don't buy so much housing then - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 16:27:22
                              that wouldn't be equitable - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:28:01
                                   equity does not mean equal (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:29:03
               So what? I don't care about you folks in the lower brackets - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:04:15
                    So the poorest people should pay the highest portion of - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:09:23
                         No they pay 15 percent like everyone else(nm) - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 16:20:59
                              15% as a proportion of $16,000 income is - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:22:08
                                   Stupidest thing I've read today. Congrats.(nm) - tiger98 MU - 5/26 18:31:18
                                   Lol what??? (nm) - pickle MU - 5/26 17:40:55
                                   15% is 15% - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:26:16
                                        Again, thank you. I can read just fine. - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:27:50
                                             This is a new level of stupidity for you (nm) - pickle MU - 5/26 17:41:29
                                             15% is 15% to everybody - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:28:30
                                                  Yet they drive on the same roads - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 16:31:01
                                                       Well - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:33:10
                                                            Hahaha - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 16:34:10
                                                                 I'm sure young enterprising businessmen like - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:35:45
                                                                      Public roads? - pickle MU - 5/26 17:43:35
                                                       what you should do is take a whole bunch of money from - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:32:03
                         People should pay the same portions of their income. - Zeaux MWSC - 5/26 16:10:27
                              I certainly understand that sentiment - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:12:11
                                   the poor pay less (or none) now - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:22:12
                                        Thank you, I posted this below. Which is why, if you - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:24:18
                                             so end taxation - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:25:36
                                                  Taxation as a policy is - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:27:02
                                                       That's a non-argument (nm) - pickle MU - 5/26 17:44:15
                                                       so people have always stolen others' money - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:27:40
                                                            Again, your crusade is not going very well. (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:29:50
                                                                 because the people with the big guns - MizzouAstro MU - 5/26 16:30:54
                                   Isn't that the case now? - Zeaux MWSC - 5/26 16:18:05
                                        Currently the poorest pay little to no income tax - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:20:21
                                   Sounds like a pricing issue. (nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:14:34
                                        Regardless of price of essentials and housing - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:17:40
               Flat tax certainly is, but I think sales taxe that exclude - raskolnikov MU - 5/26 16:03:45
               Do we have, or ever had, one that is not regressive?(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 5/26 16:03:03
                    If you remove the boatloads of deductions and exemptions - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:10:56
                         Maybe, maybe not.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 5/26 16:13:11
                    Cap Dividends and estate taxes are not regressive(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 5/26 16:04:32
                         Thanks. Lost my focus for a minute.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 5/26 16:07:11
          Me too like some form of a VAT - raskolnikov MU - 5/26 15:59:16
          I think it would put way too much responsibility and - Zeaux MWSC - 5/26 15:57:55
          Sounds good. But I'm skeptical, for several reasons. - GA Tiger MU - 5/26 15:57:34
          I would prefer no sales tax - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 15:55:42
               I could live with that.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 5/26 15:59:02
                    Same here. (nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 16:00:20
               Does 12% balance the budget?(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:57:11
                    Yep - El-ahrairah KC - 5/26 16:01:17
                         So the answer you're looking for is no - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:13:10
                              Depends on how much you droolers spend.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 5/26 16:13:56
                                   He suggested getting rid of a lot of things that - MrBlueSky MU - 5/26 16:15:02
          What level would it need to be? (nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:48:43
               30% is what I think I read last year. - Spanky KU - 5/26 15:49:34
                    30%? Lol. There goes consumption. (nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:51:57
                         Right pocket, left pocket.... - Spanky KU - 5/26 16:33:47
     With a voluntary rate of 25%, for progressives. - RHAYWORTH MU - 5/26 15:44:33
          Or they could go here and donate themselves - TIGERROAR MU - 5/26 15:49:00
               Does anyone do that?(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:52:45
          No thanks. I don't care about my fellow man - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:47:16
     good to hear(nm) - Ragnar Danneskjold MU - 5/26 15:40:45
          What you say?(nm) - DevilsAdvocate MU - 5/26 15:41:07




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