NO TAX plan is the fairest tax plan

[grahamhgreen]

May I suggest the NO TAX plan which eliminates all income taxes on people earning under, say, 1 million/year.

Revenues are generated, mostly, from taxes on corporations and the wealthy, who are currently not paying their fair share, yet can afford to.

Other revenues will come from from tarrifs and existent sources.

THIS IS HOW WE USED TO COLLECT REVENUE!

We will be facing increased pressure from Republicans to accept the "FAIR TAX", which will increase taxes on people like you and I.

The Dems should come back at the with the NO TAX, plan, something 90% of us will love.

[sakabatou]

1. I don't see this as working

[grahamhgreen]

3. It can work, as that is the way taxes used to be collected.

Also, it's a great democratic response to the bogus "Fair tax, which will suck.

[thereismore]

2. This is exactly Ron Paul's proposal. It could work if we pull back our troops from 130 countries. nt

[Selatius]

4. If you do that, you must completely dismantle funding for public education, health care, etc.

It's not revenue neutral. By that, I mean if it's imposed the amount of revenue generated would probably be less than before, meaning there must be cuts to government programs, programs that help people.

[grahamhgreen]

6. Yes, it could be revenue neutral, the country ran fine under this system until the 1900's

[Selatius]

7. But that was before Social Security and Medicare and the New Deal.

How do you propose to fund that with an older tax scheme that didn't fund those programs that have helped make life better for tens of millions of people?

[grahamhgreen]

8. 1) No expansionist froiegn policy 2) Increased taxes on Corp's / Uber-rich

[dmallind]

9. when the government provided what exactly? NT

jkh

[grahamhgreen]

11. Hospitals, poorshouses, roads, security, protection of civil liberties, courts, emergency aid, etc.

[Sanctified]

5. Never going to happen.

Our elected officials get elected by raising money from big money donors like the extremely wealthy and are bought off by big corporate interest. They will never bite the hand that feeds them, instead they would rather tax those who can least afford it while protecting their cronies from having to feel the burden of taxation.

[grahamhgreen]

10. And a woman or a black man will never be president.

[Sanctified]

16. Hardly, the wealthy could care less what color or sex their elected official is.

They only care if they are going to raise their taxes or cost them money. Remember the 1993 Clinton health care plan, Hillary was demonized by the health care industry for that and today she is their darling. They are not dumping money into her campaign because they liked her 1993 proposal, they are dumping that money in so that once she gets elected she won't bring it back.

[frazzled]

12. I WANT to contribute to my country through taxes

That's how I serve it, and that's how I have a voice. I don't want the charity of millionaires, and I don't want them to be the only ones with a stake in how this country runs.

What a regressive idea yours is. The progressive income tax system is the backbone of our democracy. Make the wealthy and corporations pay more of their share, but don't tell me I can't contribute.

[grahamhgreen]

13. You will contribute, income tax is only one of many taxes that you pay.

with this we can eliminate having to collect taxes on hundreds of millions of people which is a huge tax savings in itself.

[DangerDave921]

14. Query

How can the progressive income tax system be the backbone of our democracy when we had no income tax at all until the 20th century? What was the backbone of our system for the first 140 years when there was no income tax?

The tax code is a means of control over your freedom and liberty. It is behavior modification. No politician is going to voluntarily end the income tax.

[DangerDave921]

15. contribute

You are always free to write a check to the government to contribute. Taxes don't give you a voice. Being a citizen gives you a voice.