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View Poll Results: What should paying one's "fair share" mean with regard to taxes? | |||
Flat Tax: Everyone pays the same proportional tax rate on earnings above a defined minimum |
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9 | 40.91% |
Head Tax - Everyone pays the same flat dollar amount regardless of income level |
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0 | 0% |
Progressive - Your taxes are driven by the "bracket" you are in |
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10 | 45.45% |
Fairness cannot be defined anywhere in life, so politicians using this phrase are clueless |
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3 | 13.64% |
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll |
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![]() Flat Tax: no deductions, one rate for everybody, first "x" dollars (pick a number) in earnings exempt for everybody.
In future years, adjust "x" for inflation in accordance with some official statistic (CPI, inflation %, etc), but make it AUTOMATIC. No further intervention by Congress necessary except the compilation of the figure itself. And we must pick a number with good pedigree as a predictor. The goal as I see it is to get to a simple equation rather than tens of millions of lines of tax code. Everybody pays is as close to fairness as you will get. Oh, and when you're out of money (this means the government), you're done spending. Period. |
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![]() Check out the article in National Journal:
Our poll numbers are very close to what was observed in theirs (as of Tuesday morning) http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2...-on-the-me.php |
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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At what point in the year should taxes be paid in full assuming keeping nothing for oneself, utilizing the factors above. How much is enough?
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don't run out of ammo. |
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I'm not against a flat tax. I want to know what flat federal tax rate would have to be charged, on top of our state and local taxes, to maintain what we as a nation want to continue to provide us (excepting wars)? Joey? What is that projected rate? See, we have a major problem: our last president increased our expenditures massively, while decreasing our income massively at the same time. Wow, how stupid, right? Now we're in severe financial trouble. Cutting expenditures alone can't fix it. That's simply physically impossible. We need our "part-time" income level to go back up to "full time", where it was before the previous administration took a growing surplus and threw us under the financial burden of total fiscal irresponsibility and massive debt.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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It's impossible NOT to cut SPENDING. |
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And Joey, there exists multiple estimates of what a flat tax rate would have to be for this country. Please google that and get back to us with the figures. Because that is the essence of your argument: either we have the current tax code, we keep the code and eliminate loopholes, or we go to flat tax. Well, what rate would that flat tax have to be? How much would you pay under your own flat tax proposal?
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts |
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The party is over, especially for the dead beats and leeches. |
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We can't afford what we have today, and the moronic congresses and administrations of the past 100+ years made it that way. You owe 1/300,000,000th of the debt, just like me. Time to pay up and quit whining. |
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