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originally posted by: audubon
a reply to: redhorse
Don't get me wrong, I would like a 1% tax, it's just not an applicable comparison; and really, it's not workable.
Oh, it would work perfectly. For the one per cent, who would be living in heavily-guarded utopian cities, while the rest of the population lived in shanties just outside the city walls so that they could rummage through the garbage piles in order to survive.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Bluntone22
A flat tax is fine witb me, but youre loiking at cliser to 18% than 1%.
After business deductions, I pay 5%-9% to the Govt. 18% is too high...and so is Trump's 15% proposal...assuming that all deductions are eliminated.
originally posted by: audubon
a reply to: redhorse
wut
originally posted by: Misterlondon
1% tax rate.. Ok but then you must have to accept your armies reverting back to armour and sword's like the romans..
originally posted by: redhorse
Slaves were a commodity. They were intrinsic to the economy in a way that we can't really find a direct correlation to today. It wasn't just about the labor that the slaves could do, so the machine correlation regarding man hours doesn't exactly work. It is a factor, but not the whole picture.
If you suddenly removed a major commodity for say, energy then maybe it would have a similar result. That's part of why the Romans had to keep raiding, to keep the slaves coming in. Not just man power and hours.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
a reply to: carewemust
Russia has 13% flat tax, but Russia does not have social problems nor do they have a racial geographical distribution. In the US most African Americans live in big cities. In Russia there are only whites. It would be more difficult for a low tax to work in the US, since welfare is a political problem in the US, unless in Russia where it is not.
originally posted by: FyreByrd
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: Bluntone22
A flat tax is fine witb me, but youre loiking at cliser to 18% than 1%.
After business deductions, I pay 5%-9% to the Govt. 18% is too high...and so is Trump's 15% proposal...assuming that all deductions are eliminated.
And the rest of us are 'subsidizing' your low effective rate by paying a higher rate. You should be paying your FAIR SHARE.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
a reply to: carewemust
Neither. It is egalitarian.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: allsee4eye
a reply to: carewemust
Neither. It is egalitarian.
Something for me to go research right now. Thanks 4 the info.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
a reply to: carewemust
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the 3 major former USSR republics, all have flat tax. They are neither communist nor socialist. They are egalitarian, treating everyone equally.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
In the US the 10th amendment says the federal government should not do things states can do
so in the US the federal flat tax can be at most a few percent.
originally posted by: allsee4eye
In the US the 10th amendment says the federal government should not do things states can do, so in the US the federal flat tax can be at most a few percent.