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> The argument I've heard is that ... > Except it doesn't work. People can be mad about taxes regardless of whether they're easy or hard to file. "that can't
by paulmd 5y ago
> The argument I've heard is that ...
> Except it doesn't work. People can be mad about taxes regardless of whether they're easy or hard to file.
"that can't possibly be a fair representation of that ideologue's position, there's huge gaps in the logic!"
look, positions way out on the fringes don't have to make coherent sense to the rest of us. PETA runs kill-shelters that euthanize millions of animals every year, sometimes multiples of other kill shelters. It makes sense to them, they have their own logic why that's good.
Making Americans hate every aspect of taxes - the amount, having to spend a couple quality hours with a tax program every year, getting sales tax rolled on top of advertised prices, everything - is the goal here. Just make taxes suck so that people hate them. Because then people will oppose taxation.
- imtringued 5y agoThat's highly ineffective and ultimately pointless. I don't want income taxes to be abolished because I think taxation is wrong. I want them to be abolished because there are better taxes than income taxes cause dead weight losses in the economy and tell people to work less than they want. Abolishing income tax because it is hard to file is quite absurd. You can have a flat percentage income tax and then you wouldn't have to file. Then you could implement an automatic deduction via tax credits ala Milton's negative income tax. For me that would be an acceptable compromise if my goal was simplifying taxes.