Taxes will always be with us. Someone needs to pay for roads, police, fire departments, schools and giant Senate Office Buildings. My argument is not with taxes, my argument is 1) how our representatives play with our money and 2) how the money is collected.
This is about the latter, how our Government collects the taxes, specifically income taxes. Our tax code is a bewildering array of legalese with enough holes in the premise to make it almost (if not entirely) impossible to completely obey, let alone understand. The tax code has created an army of tax accountants, tax lawyers and other such people/firms designed to handle the chore of paying our taxes without us going to jail.
The simplest solution to the entire mess is to do away with the income tax and institute a revenue neutral sales tax. Charge the States with collecting the money and Billions of dollars will magically appear as a sales tax is nearly impossible to avoid. The more you make the more you will spend and the more taxes you will pay. This even addresses the liberal’s fixation on “fair share”.
We could cut the cost of the IRS by about 70% with the added benefit of being able to see at a glance what our representatives are taking out of our pocket. We would immediately save HUGE amounts of money currently being spent on income tax form preparation. We would make the tax system fair to all and make it easier to pay.
Downside? To the people, NONE. To the politician, transparency. The current crop of people feeding at the taxpayer funded trough will never even consider the option. The only way to institute a National sales tax is to elect people who run on a sales tax platform. Are YOU interested?
Geo.
Tags: income tax, IRS, taxes
