It’s time to scrap the progressive income tax system once and for all!
Earlier this week The Drudge Report linked to a story from the AP which highlighted the fact that almost half of all Americans (47%) don’t pay any federal income taxes.
Most people who don’t have their heads up their keisters realized that fact long ago.
The evil “Bush tax cuts” which according to the Left are the root of all evil, unfairness, and the current economic crisis, removed millions of more citizens from the tax rolls. At the time, Bush even bragged about it. Go figure!
The abominable progressive income tax system that has been in place in America for nearly a century rewards certain people, while punishing others. It usually rewards the leeches of society while punishing the producers. This is why Leftists love it.
As the AP story points out, millions of Americans are now excluded from paying federal taxes due to tax credits, deductions, and exemptions. Before I get e-mails from all the dummies out there; yes these people do get federal taxes deducted from their paychecks, but they receive it all back in the form of the yearly tax refund. Some even get refunds for more than what was deducted.
Tax cuts for the rich eh?
I know that there are some fellow conservatives who won’t like this, but I have always been appalled by the fact that the federal government gives tax breaks to people just for having children. Last time I checked, having children was a personal choice not a burden that some outside entity places on people. Is it fair that people who are single, or couples who don’t have children should in effect support those who choose to have them?
No it’s not fair! The entire progressive income tax system is the antithesis of fairness. It is used by politicians to pay off special interests, buy votes, control or modify people’s behavior, and to generally pit one group of people against the other. The Left loves the fact that almost half of Americans don’t pay any income tax. They love it because people who don’t pay any taxes are usually indifferent towards taxes being raised on the people who do. They’re more likely to fall in line with the whole tax the rich philosophy – the philosophy that leads to Socialism, then Communism, then to Marxism and totalitarianism.
I contend that we will never really be a true free-market economy and a free people until the current tax system is scrapped.
I personally favor a Flat Tax that is equal across the board, and that is paid by everyone. The Flat Tax should also do away with most if not all deductions and exemptions, and should be able to be filled out in 30 seconds on a document the size of a postcard. I also favor the total abolishment of the death tax (inheritance tax) and the capital gains tax. People should never be taxed twice on any of their earnings!
I and many others believe (Know) that a Flat Tax and a zero tax on capital gains, plus a drastic cut in the corporate tax would lead to an explosion of investment and capital. This combined with across the board spending cuts would create an economic boom that would make the Reagan years look like the Jimmy Carter years. It would also drastically increase revenue to the federal government.
It’s totally mind-boggling that many Eastern European countries who lived for decades under the heavy boot of communism have adopted the Flat Tax while the United States now heads in the other direction towards massive wealth redistribution and socialism.
Here’s a list of the countries that have a Flat Tax:
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Albania
Czech Republic
Estonia
Georgia
Guernsey
Kazakhstan
Iceland
Iraq
Jersey
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Mongolia
Montenegro
Mauritius
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Ukraine
Notice that no country in Old Europe (Western Europe) is on the list. That part of the world is steeped in apathy, debt, deficits, and socialism. This is the model that the Obama administration and the Democrat Party want us to emulate – and we are!
Conservatives, Libertarians, and other like minded people should demand that the next candidate to oppose Obama in 2012 put radical tax reform at the top of his or her agenda. I understand that right now our fight is against national healthcare, cap & trade, and probably amnesty for illegal immigrants, but at some point we need to declaw the politicians in Washington D.C. The best and probably only way to really do this is to throw the current progressive tax system into the toilet and flush it 100 times.
That’s really the only way that we will be able to preserve freedom and prosperity for future generations.
Reader Comments
And let’s not forget the VAT, which is now being bounced around as the method to pay for ObummerKare…
God help us, because the politicians certainly won’t…
The Progressive Tax is a form of class warfare since it punishes those who work hard and make a lot of money while rewarding those who don’t work hard and live off the government teat. The flat tax would allow all but those who cannot work, such as the disabled, to “have skin in the game”. The resulting investments would create jobs and the economy would rebound. We might even spend some of that on Obama’s latest nemesis: the iPad and the XBox!