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There are also anti-tax activists who want to make tax filing as onerous as possible so people hate taxes.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
There are also anti-tax activists who want to make tax filing as onerous as possible so people hate taxes.
- philipov 8y agoI would like to popularize a term for this kind of behavior: Political Terrorism.
- jlawson 8y agoAll terrorism is political. Also, I tire of the constant politically motivated attempts to inflate the usage of words to try to attach awful connotations to relatively innocuous things. Please stop.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoWhat other term would you use for holding the country hostage through flagarant, unapologetic cronyism and regulatory capture? Edit: None of these replies really captures of the gravity of the situation IMHO.
- otterley 8y agoCorruption.
- gumby 8y agoabuse
- int_19h 8y agoPlutocratic oligarchy.
- tedunangst 8y agoEconomic water boarding, obviously.
- lallysingh 8y agoGovernment
- ada1981 8y ago#MAGA!
- derefr 8y agoYou'd think, if they were powerful enough to affect tax law, they'd lobby for getting taxes included in prices, the way they are in most of Europe. That'd make a lot of people hate taxes—especially the people who have to constantly re-tag merchandise.
- TomMarius 8y agoI'm European. What this does is that it hides the tax and people complain about price increases when the tax increases. Every single EU libertarian would prefer the US way. BTW what the heck are you doing with your tax rates that you'd have to constantly re-tag? That's completely a non-problem over here.
- freehunter 8y agoYeah if merchandise is sitting on a retail shelf long enough that the tax changes multiple times before it's sold, you need to rethink your stocking choices.
- enraged_camel 8y agoI don’t see why we can’t have both. Have one price that is the grand total, and in a smaller font, display how much of that grand total is the tax. That way people know how much the thing will cost upfront, and also know the tax amount.
- TomMarius 8y agoIn the USA, I have no idea. In the EU, politicians don't want that because that'd surely lead to a revolution, especially in the east.
- joppy 8y agoSales tax in the USA differs across states, and even across counties. So it could change fairly regularly.
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- failrate 8y agoGoddamn Grover Norquist.
- sbuttgereit 8y agoI'm largely in the anti-tax camp and I don't want that. Perhaps I'm just not in that martyrdom mindset enough to want such a thing... but even so it would be more of a gimmick than an argument. I don't like these kinds of stupid made up controversies when they come from people and groups I oppose and like them even less from my side of whatever political point is at stake. As others have mentioned, I do think there should be transparency. So, for example, the employer portions of payroll taxes (in the U.S.) is not usually visible to the employee on who's behalf it is paid; an employee doesn't see the full weight of taxes that ultimately derives from their labor... that to me is hiding, in a fashion, what my real gross pay is and what amount of my earnings is being taken.
- rayiner 8y ago> I'm largely in the anti-tax camp and I don't want that. I’m in the pro tax camp and I kind of like it. I enjoy paying my taxes, but I don’t think the government should take half of peoples’ paychecks without people having to think consciously about it every year.
- Hello71 8y agoWho exactly pays an average income tax rate of 50% in the United States? You'd have to be making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, at which point you don't get it as a check, you get it as a wire transfer from your investment bank, because with the exception of certain athletes, nobody makes that much money in salary.
- sbuttgereit 8y agoIf you're only looking at federal income taxes, sure. But now add in state income taxes, local taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, special fees and assessments, and other mandatory charges and that bar starts to move down the great chain of being rather rapidly. I assure you, I'm not making hundreds of millions of dollars and I'm pretty sure that I'm in that 50% range of dollars consumed by government takings per dollar earned.