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'... if the loopholes were closed ...' It's not about loopholes. Instead it is about why there is presently a PERSONAL federal income tax. Simply eliminate the
by landemva 5y ago
'... if the loopholes were closed ...'
It's not about loopholes. Instead it is about why there is presently a PERSONAL federal income tax. Simply eliminate the federal personal income tax. The employer payroll tax withholding would then drop, so people working would effectively get a raise.
The fed budget was able to pay for two decades of destructing Afghanistan, so the feds will be ok.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoAll libertarians want the personal federal income tax cut, especially if they're high income.
- mostertoaster 5y agoI want all taxes cut. I want Bezos to pay less, and I hate Amazon. Most taxes are just going to wind up in the pockets of some bureaucrat. Maybe our government would just spend less. Governments waste money. I don’t care what it is for, if it is a tax increase and I can vote against it I will. The US federal government is just the largest corporation, with 50 layers of middle management. I’ll donate to the library, and the parks fund though. Gas taxes also aren’t the worse if they’re only used for transportation purposes. Property taxes should only be used for police and fire departments, and maybe power grid work if you’re on the grid.
- kmbfjr 5y agoGovernments waste money on things which “we” do not agree. Noticeably absent from your list is education, which I am not implying is intentional nor do I wish to say you are against funding it. If the function of government is to help run a safe orderly society, not funding that seems to be a mistake. Now we’re adding to the list, and there is of course defense, and oh, the FAA as airplanes crashing is a bad idea. And don’t forget the SEC, FDIC, have to protect the financial sector. And here we are.
- landemva 5y agoFAA allowed Boeing to avoid getting a new type certification for 737MAX (large fans relocated on wing mounts to avoid scrapping runway) and what would have been costly pilot training for the new type certification. Fail, twice. UL is not government and reviews consumer electrical product safety, so safety can be done without government.
- mostertoaster 5y agoEducation was very intentional. When I say I vote against all taxes, this is the only one I have a choice and *always* will vote against. Government schools are completely untrustworthy. There are many good teachers at them, but they’re just indoctrination centers, for progressive communist bull crap. Hey our local middle school is having the local drag club show up! The kids can’t read, but at least the boys now know it is ok to wear a dress and makeup. And I don’t give a crap if a boy wears a dress. If there were complete choice as to how to spend that money, and we could fire the shit teachers, pretty much if the local public school was simply funded by the local neighborhood, I’d be ok with that. The leftist dogma is so ingrained into our culture, even the right wingers, accept so many of their presuppositions. College education, is crap here. And people don’t actually learn how to think, but what to think. A liberal arts education was a thing once pursued for the sake of education, and now at our universities, it is just another way to make sure you believe the right narrative. Like we literally have words like “birthing person”, and “chest feeding”instead of “mom” and “breast feeding”, and everyone is so blind they can’t see how stupid that is. Yes a trans man can have a baby and breast feed it, and somehow that means we should stop using common sense. Clown world.
- arbitrary_name 5y agoWhere do we have 'chest feeding'? And don't give me a link to some new york post or fox bullshit.
- mostertoaster 5y agohttps://www.urmc.rochester.edu/breastfeeding/services/lgbtqi-and-breastfeeding.aspx https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/breastfeeding/services/lgbtqi... I mean just google it. Do you not work at a trans friendly place perhaps?
- meatsauce 5y ago"two decades of destructing Afghanistan" Clearly you know nothing of Afghanistan, our mission there, and what we did asides from blow up terrorists. We built roads, energy and data infrastructure, government buildings, and trained countless Afghans on everything from construction to IT to self-defense. There was certainly mission creep and mistakes were certainly made, there is no arguing that. Nevertheless, we invested more money into building Afghanistan than we did dropping bombs on caves and desert compounds. Then the Biden administration handed it all to the Taliban, who sold some of it to China.
- cmmeur01 5y ago“Invested” or “paid contractors exorbitant amounts” to do those things the American public (average person not corporate imperial America) would see no benefit from?
- jl2718 5y agoCorrect but irrelevant. I was there and did all that, and most of the people with me would have agreed with the expressed sentiment as it relates to taxes.
- kmos17 5y agoIt is not the Biden admin that handed it over, the deal for the hand off was negotiated and signed by the previous admin.
- epakai 5y agoTrump had a "credible deterrent" that was going to magically maintain order after we left. Obviously nothing Biden could have been privy to despite leading the same military and nation.
- fuzzfactor 5y agoI think with 20/20 hindsight lots of taxpayers would have preferred more of the money to be spent in the USA rather than Afghanistan. Others who see no worthwhile reason for that much tax to be levied in the first place. That's 20/20 hindsight for you.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoBlame the 16th Amendment.