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Bernardo de La Paz

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3. Scrap tax deductions; Only direct Govt payments are accountable and transparent to the public.
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 11:00 AM
Oct 2016

The scandal is that the tax system is rigged to give hidden subsidies to the rich and the corporations.

There should be no tax breaks for anything besides basic citizen breaks, like interest payments on mortgages on primary residences.

Every other monetary aspect of government policy should be handled by direct payments where the benefit is public and accountable.

[font size = "+1"]Hidden tax benefits are a very corrupt cause of the corrosively massive inequality of wealth and income.[/font]
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