Tax Day Rant
There Are Few Things I Feel More Strongly About Than a nationwide sales tax instead of an income tax. Today is the day all the hardworking Americans (without tax shelters and dual citizenship in the Bahamas) pay their taxes. To this end I propose a nationwide sales tax instead of the current income tax bracket system we live in and in lieu of some flat tax. Here's why:
1 - A Flat Tax would be too hard to judge. How would you know where to start? You can say %13 but if you're wrong, you'll have to send the government workers home in October without pay. A nationwide sales tax can be implemented and then when the target amount is hit, the IRS can alert everyone and that tax can stop being collected. Sure, people will want to try to wait until the end of the year to buy things but most people can't go 9 months without food. Also, it'll give those buying gifts at Christmas a little break.
2 - Drug dealers, Immigrants and Hookers. Everyone would pay federal taxes. Not just those people honest enough to fill out the laborious forms. Also, you could capture some revenue from those who tarry in our country. Those who come, enjoy our lifestyle and drive on our interstates would be putting money in our kitty. It happens when I go to a neighboring state to buy cheetohs, why shouldn't it happen when our visitors come to the US to buy cheetohs?
3 - An End To the Deadline Madness. Is it really the duty of every American to learn the tax code? Sure we can take our taxes somewhere but then we're paying someone for needless calculations. Do we all need to be CPA's? Do we need to keep every post office in America open until midnight just to cater to the needs of the procrastinator? How much does that cost? And if we can make it more simple, then there's that many less employees needed down at the IRS. Sure some accountants will loose their jobs, but their jobs are predicated on the complexity of an outdated and unfair system.
4 - Shelter, Schmelter. If I hear one more time about how little tax celebrities and millionaires pay, I might gouge my eyes out with a spork. Is that what America was built on? Loopholes? Shelters? Jimmying the systems for your own benefit? In High School we used to have kids who puts bags of chips in the change chute of the coke machines. Then they would come back later and put the bag and the captured change out. This is the same thing. Since we've set up a system that makes paying less or more taxes a matter of figuring out how best your accountant works, then those with money can hire the best accountants. Isn't it enough that our legal system works the same way? Be taxed as you spend. If I'm a janitor then I should pay janitor-like taxes. If I'm on MTV Cribs then I should be furnishing the Army with a nice, new F16.
1 - A Flat Tax would be too hard to judge. How would you know where to start? You can say %13 but if you're wrong, you'll have to send the government workers home in October without pay. A nationwide sales tax can be implemented and then when the target amount is hit, the IRS can alert everyone and that tax can stop being collected. Sure, people will want to try to wait until the end of the year to buy things but most people can't go 9 months without food. Also, it'll give those buying gifts at Christmas a little break.
2 - Drug dealers, Immigrants and Hookers. Everyone would pay federal taxes. Not just those people honest enough to fill out the laborious forms. Also, you could capture some revenue from those who tarry in our country. Those who come, enjoy our lifestyle and drive on our interstates would be putting money in our kitty. It happens when I go to a neighboring state to buy cheetohs, why shouldn't it happen when our visitors come to the US to buy cheetohs?
3 - An End To the Deadline Madness. Is it really the duty of every American to learn the tax code? Sure we can take our taxes somewhere but then we're paying someone for needless calculations. Do we all need to be CPA's? Do we need to keep every post office in America open until midnight just to cater to the needs of the procrastinator? How much does that cost? And if we can make it more simple, then there's that many less employees needed down at the IRS. Sure some accountants will loose their jobs, but their jobs are predicated on the complexity of an outdated and unfair system.
4 - Shelter, Schmelter. If I hear one more time about how little tax celebrities and millionaires pay, I might gouge my eyes out with a spork. Is that what America was built on? Loopholes? Shelters? Jimmying the systems for your own benefit? In High School we used to have kids who puts bags of chips in the change chute of the coke machines. Then they would come back later and put the bag and the captured change out. This is the same thing. Since we've set up a system that makes paying less or more taxes a matter of figuring out how best your accountant works, then those with money can hire the best accountants. Isn't it enough that our legal system works the same way? Be taxed as you spend. If I'm a janitor then I should pay janitor-like taxes. If I'm on MTV Cribs then I should be furnishing the Army with a nice, new F16.
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