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There is wanting taxes, and then there is wanting taxes. One is the tax rate, and other is how much business is done. The logic goes that if the government gene
by x5n1 11y ago
There is wanting taxes, and then there is wanting taxes. One is the tax rate, and other is how much business is done. The logic goes that if the government generates more jobs through lower business tax then they can get more revenue from the income tax. I guess I should restate and say that the government wants more revenue, whichever way it comes in and is more amenable to policies that produces more revenue for itself and for business in the country.
- tptacek 11y agoOk, I'm being repetitive but also trying to simplify: Conservatives make up the core opposition to return-free filing. Conservatives definitionally do not want more taxation, or complicated taxation. So I'm not sure the notion that Intuit's lobbying has killed return-free filing holds up.
- makomk 11y agoConservatives want lower tax rates. One common conservative argument is that if you tax less, businesses will expand more and you may even make more in taxes overall.
- tptacek 11y agoThat's valid, but the nuance I left out of my comment was the common conservative belief that the government is simply too big, and that by cutting taxes, we can starve it back to an appropriate size. Many conservatives would not be happy with a more efficient mechanism to generate the same revenue we get today.
- jellicle 11y ago> complicated taxation Of course they do. Making something more burdensome makes it easier to attack politically. The Republican ideal tax return would be 796 pages long. "Tax returns too long? Vote Republican! We'll cut taxes on the rich!"