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The income tax system has a lot of problems and should be totally revamped and replaced.

That we can agree upon!!!!

But a consumption tax is regressive and impossible to switch to....

I am sick of regressive taxes....

You have already listed carve outs and exemptions......dont you think that those carve outs would become a tool just like our tax laws now? You list eggs, milk, bread???? Dont you think the seafood lobby would make donations to candidates to include seafood in the exemptions, then there is the cheese lobby and then the pasta crowd....etc. And so on....,

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Originally posted by JTEX:

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Originally posted by Steve Bertram:
I understand a flat tax perfectly well, that is why I don't support it. It is just another gift to the wealthy. The top tax rate is just about 1/2 of what it was in 1980. I'm not fooled in the least as to what the GOP has been doing, moving the burden of funding the government on to the middle and lower tax brackets. Anybody paying attention can see what has been happening. That is one of the many reasons that I do not support tariffs.

Yeah...well....there where so many deductions that the wealthy never paid the percentage.....just feel good bullshit that dummies like you keep repeating.....

What's the fair share?

I would like to see the top tax brackets rates raised by several percentage points, closer to 40% than 37 and change, as well as seeing the lower tax brackets rates lowered by a few percentage points. I know what it is like to struggle and have empathy for those that do. I'm not struggling, a lifetime of conservative monetary choices have put me in a position to ride out Trump's stupidity quite well. The booming Biden years sure as hell didn't hurt either.

Cry me a river Yakob, you poor thing you. You did well in life, STFU about paying your fair share, would you?

JTex,

You keep confusing two completely different concepts.

A consumption tax is totally different than an income tax. Your concern that a consumption tax is regressive (taxing the lower classes unfairly) can be addressed by not taxing certain staples. For example, basic groceries, cars up to a ceiling (but not luxury cars), etc.

But as soon as you start talking about a flat tax, you are back to income tax, an ill-conceived concept to start with, but the one we are stuck with for now.

I know it's hard to stop thinking about taxes based on income, as it's been in place since before any of us were born, but it's a bad theory, a bad concept, and there is a better way. Try to be open minded. i know that's hard.