Re: Flat Tax.

Raymond G. Van De Walker (rgvandewalker@juno.com)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:40:55 PDT

On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 06:40:33 -0500 Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net> writes:
>Let's scrap ALL the taxes, and the bureaucracies that go with them -
>replace with an universal sales tax

Historically, people cheat when it gets much above 10% of the sales price. The U.S. gov currently takes about 51% of my corp's budget, as allocated to human resources expenses, after all taxes, sales taxes, etc. are paid, assuming that the employess spend it all, and save nothing.

This is why the VAT was invented: To hide the sales tax.

I favor a single tax on real-estate, because protecting real-estate is the only value that I'm certain that only government could create. Also, this tax therefore cannot punish consumption by poor people, and only punishes relatively well-off land-owners. At the same time, it punishes inefficient use of land.

>Any budget surplus should either be refunded to the people . . .
Period, in my opinion. I want to keep the interest on my _own_trust fund, thank-you.



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