hard to see how it could be anything else. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > the issue of the flat tax (which is what this is in sheep's clothing), it > that it is retrogressive, it hits the poor far more than any other group. > Why should they pay for the rich or upper class indulgences? Frankly all > the proposal I've seen on this could only be classified as a Poor Tax. > > On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> "The solution isn't to just raise taxes. It's to also put rules in place > to > >> safe-guard and penalize against hiding your money to avoid paying the > >> taxes." > >> > >> Or ditch the monstrosity that is the progressive income tax and move to > a > >> national sales tax. > > > > I can certainly get behind reforming the tax code to steamline it and > > remove most (if not all) of the specialized deductions that keep > > adding entropy to the system. I certainly can't agree on the wisdom of > > switching from a progressive income tax to a national sales tax > > though. A progressive income tax is still, philosophically, the right > > way to go in my opinion. Obviously its current implementation leaves > > something to be desired. > > > > Judah > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
