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Originally Posted by Nightsong
Actually if you are truley sick and tired of the IRS, the SS taken out of you pay check and a myriad of other indecendies carried on in the name of taxes, try out
fairtax.org
A lot of very sensible work goes into this.
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The problem with the FairTax and other "revenue neutral" proposals is that it doesn't move towards the direction of less taxation or more liberty. It makes it "fairer" maybe, but quite frankly their isn't a such a thing as a tax that's "fair." The fairtax, instead moves sideways. And considering what we know about government, sideways tends in actuality after all the debates, ammendments, and regs to mean towards more tyranny.
2ndly, all spending is a tax. Regardless of how the monies collected, it still needs to be paid for somehow. The only way to actually cut taxes in the long run, is to cut spending waving some majic government wand to restructure how taxes are collected isn't going to solve that problem. There's no way for the government to take 2 trillion dollars out of the ecconomy with-out causing serious disruptions.
I don't think we should settle for replacing the current tax scheme with another one. If all those people who spend all their energy towards restructuring actually spent their energy trying to repeal it, repealing it would be possible. Especially since, as I said, repealing the income tax would only decrease government revenues down to about Clinton era currently. It seems to me that it's practical and even pragmatic to advocate the abolishion of the income tax.
Oynx, sounds to me like you're on a form of welfare dole. The difference between the $3500 that you would have paid in, and the $6000 in child tax credits ($2500) is other peoples money. Money the government took from other people to give to you. I understand, you've got to live in the system though.
Tracy