The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, April 27, 2015

A single tax plan

Eliminate all but the income tax.

Fund everything that needs funding out of state and federal income taxes.

All regressive taxation will be thus abolished at a stroke, and all taxes will be at least proportional to income if not as fully satisfactory to a progressive as the graduated tax.

Or we could spend the rest of our lives reading crap like this defending schemes to impoverish government to keep billionaires happy by shafting the public.

And to shove as much of the cost of government onto the lower orders as humanly possible.

How to Cut Taxes and Fund Infrastructure

Recall that one of the most regressive taxes possible is the simple head tax, each person being liable for exactly the same dollar amount regardless of means.

When someone proposes privatizing a public resource currently free to all comers or at any rate partly subsidized by government, or that it be financed in future entirely by user fees to which all are liable, he is saying rich people would like a really, really special break, please, and that the cost of the resource be thrust way, way disproportionately onto the backs of the non-rich.

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