forget the proportionality ratio attempt, it would create even more
overhead...
First, you don't pay taxes here in the US on the things you need to
survive... and where you do such, the taxes aren't so alarming...
Bread, milk, fruit, meat, housing, clothing = no taxes... unless you
eat out and do other luxurious things.... I think that makes sense...
Taxes are too high... Period.
As I said, pay taxes on what you consume... if you create children and
have to pay for them and you consume more you pay more... I don't want
to incetivize you to use more while you make less, causing me to make
more and use less...
-paris
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: "Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:08:24 -0500
Subject: RE: Revenge has it's place
> But taxation isn't about poor people paying more or less then rich
> people.
> It's about everyone paying a fair share.
>
> If I buy a loaf of bread for $1 and you buy a loaf of bread for $1,
> why
> should either of us pay a higher or lower tax, based entirely on how
> much
> money we have in savings or net worth?
>
> The same argument could be made concerning purchase price and how it
> hurts
> low income families much harder then high income families. So why not
> charge
> for everything based on yearly income?
>
> If you make $20k a year, that loaf of bread will only cost you a
> nickle.
> However if you make $500k a year, the same loaf will cost you $85.
> After
> all, you can afford it and the poor person couldn't.
>
> Marcus
>
> > A brief note regarding Paris' and Ray's comments about sales taxes.
> People
> > with low incomes are hit far harder by sales taxes than people in
> > the middle
> > or upper income brackets. Figure out the math. You buy a loaf of
> > bread for a
> > dollar, and have a 5% sales tax on it. That 5 cents hits you a lot
> more if
> > you're poor than if you have a $100,000 a year salary. Income tax
> in this
> > country is a regressive tax - the more you make theoretically the
> more you
> > pay (although with the new tax cuts now that's arguable). Sales
> taxes work
> > the opposite, they affect the rich far more than the poor. Why
> should we
> > penalize some working Joe who makes $25,000 a year and supports a
> wife and
> > kids on that small income. In contrast a couple making a combined
> > income of
> > $100,000 are far less hurt by the same sales tax.
> >
> > regards,
> > larry
> >
> >
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> >
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