Nobody should get tax-exempt status, because nobody should have to pay income tax. There must have been a good reason for the founders to put "no head tax" in the Constitution.
The top 1% pay basically no income tax due to lobbying/loopholes/fraudulent accounting/offshoring. It mostly fucks over the middle class, who pay a huge portion of income tax, especially with respect to what share of income they gain. The large cities of the west/NE have already had a big squeeze on the middle class, and the South has not had that happen as much yet.
Simple. They thought we needed to tax the rich more so more money could go to poor people.
I have been the constant advocate of an income tax along constitutional lines… I reiterate that through it only…will it ever be possible for the Government to be able to make idle wealth pay its just share of the ever-increasing burdens of taxation.
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Tax the rich, they say. Always. Yet, look at who pays the biggest portion of taxes, proportionally.
Proportions, to me, make sense because people who are bigger participants in the economy use more government services, without even any capture shenanigans.
Top reason: the Feds use the income tax to take everyone's money then bribe the states to do their bidding. It's their primary way around limited powers (Wickard v Filburn is #2).
Nobody should get tax-exempt status, because nobody should have to pay income tax. There must have been a good reason for the founders to put "no head tax" in the Constitution.
I'd be interested to know what the idiots that voted to allow it were thinking.
Fuck the South and the poor lol.
What's that particularly got to do with income tax?
The top 1% pay basically no income tax due to lobbying/loopholes/fraudulent accounting/offshoring. It mostly fucks over the middle class, who pay a huge portion of income tax, especially with respect to what share of income they gain. The large cities of the west/NE have already had a big squeeze on the middle class, and the South has not had that happen as much yet.
Simple. They thought we needed to tax the rich more so more money could go to poor people.
Tax the rich, they say. Always. Yet, look at who pays the biggest portion of taxes, proportionally.
Proportions, to me, make sense because people who are bigger participants in the economy use more government services, without even any capture shenanigans.
If we change the Constitution, we can make all sorts of crazy taxes!
Top reason: the Feds use the income tax to take everyone's money then bribe the states to do their bidding. It's their primary way around limited powers (Wickard v Filburn is #2).