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The US tax system is designed by people who in theory represent the will of the people, but in reality that are advocating for special interests. You have thin
by ixacto 5y ago
The US tax system is designed by people who in theory represent the will of the people, but in reality that are advocating for special interests.
You have things like SALT tax deduction and mortgage interest tax deduction which are directly designed to benefit rich liberals in blue states by subsidizing their oversized government. Take these away and people get mad or move to TX/FL/NV because they actually have to pay their full taxes.
Also having a high state sales tax is much more logical if you don’t want to pay tax just don’t spend money.
It would make much more sense to just do a federal sales tax, totally eliminate the corporate tax as people are paying taxes anyway and it is just a disadvantage to us-domiciled corporations competitiveness, and also totally eliminate fed and state income taxes. Like purge them with fire, there’s way too much complexity and corruption built up over the last hundred years.
Then if you still care about people at the end just institute UBI and Medicare for all to eliminate the billing complexity and potential for discrimination. This policy would also be compatible with open borders and free movement of labor if we as a society decided we want that.