What are valid reasons for raising taxes?

Question

This is a valid issue for a number of reasons, the key one being ''American sacrifice'. Like it or not, we are a nation at war. It is still the very early stages. It has not yet expanded into what it will become as populations grow and a new generation with a new form of radicalism comes along to seduce people who as children have only know war into action. As a result of 'being at war' (again, this is not meant as a forum for discussions on the validity of said war--there are plenty of other questions popping up no doubt hourly on that very topic--this is a question on 'willingness to sacrifice), is it appropraite for our taxes to be raised a trifle to may for security and the effort, instead of wasted on partisan issues on both the left and the right and the momentary hysterical distractions people are worried about to avoid considering the climate of fear? If you do not think they should be raised (again, not because you are against the war--that is any longer irrelevant), why?

Answer 1

The sad thing is government fails and wastes money in so many areas that the idea of giving them more is repungnant to many. That said, however, there are things I want our government to do, and while they should do them with existing funds - they don't. So I would give them new money to get these things done;

1) Charge a $5 a month tax on health care premiums and use the money to get more people trained in the health care field. We're facing a crisis in health care and the way to fix that is with more people in the field - flood the market.

2) A 5 cent gasoline tax to help improve fuel efficiency, alterantive fuels, and a new standard of growth and development that encourages non vehicular commutes (live \ work ratio development).

3) A nation property tax coupled with a limit of 2% annual growth in spending to pay down the national debt.

Answer 2

Of course there are very valid reasons to raise taxes.
The ratio of money in the hands of the rich as compared to lower income citizens has tilted greatly toward the rich. In other words, the rich own and control a much higher share of the wealth, the goods, the land and so on in this Country.
You have heard the conservative economists say how bad it would be for the minimum wage to be raised. Well more and more of us are going to be living at the minimum.
The last five years the rate of money flowing into the bank accounts of the rich, people who make 400,000.00 per year or more, has accelerated, and the gap between the poor and rich is widening at an amazing and unhealthy rate.
Americans had better look around and sniff the wind, because the rich are about to impoverish all of the rest of us, and they apparently can not stop being greedy and cannot help themselves.
It would be a very good idea to raise taxes on the rich significantly, because without a better division of income and property, the poor class is going to expand greatly by scooping up many middle class folks. In other words, the rich will own all the good stuff and you and me will own our regrets.
Look Out, Its coming.

Answer 3

There are definitely valid reasons to raise taxes most especially for social programs, especially during a time where jobs are scarce and people are going under.

But it shouldn't come primarily from the middle class, as it presently does. It should come from millionaires and billionaires primarily, by cutting down their tax loopholes and get them to pay their fair share of taxes, which presently they don't. For instance, money that is now deposited in foreign banks could make a huge difference in the US economy. Their selfishness and greediness is truly what's wrong with this country today.

Answer 4

There aren't any. Need, whether real or fabricated, is no excuse for theft. Your definition of greed will never serve as a valid reason to coerce others.
Taxation is the enslavement of all "for the good of all", yet it only benefits bureaucrats. They are the only ones whose rich lifestyles are actually obscene, because they do not earn their money, they steal it-- from all of us, and we're brought up to believe this is moral. Obediently unthinking citizens go on repeating the mantra that profit is evil, but taxation is holy.

Answer 5

there are no valid reasons for having taxes in the first place. A tax is a sum of money one is coersed to pay by a third party not involved in a business transaction. Taxes are simply income redistribution programs- transfer payments if you will. As i see it, if in the economy $1= 1 vote how could it possibly be effective to take votes from those who have earned them through their blood, sweat and tears and redistribute it to those that the taxed individual would not support or willingly donate his money. It seems to me like robbery and fraud!

but wait! our federal government would never do something like that to us... would it......?

Answer 6

Yes. As sure as the republicans keep spending money. the Democrates must step in to raise taxes for essential government services,programs and other sane reasons.

Answer 7

This is a retarded question.

The real expenses of government and even the defense budget could easily be covered with about a fourth of our present national tax income.

All kinds of money is going to the National Park Service, grants for artists, research projects, environmental agencies, NASA, so called "civic improvements", etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

What about just general waste????

I worked for the National Park Service for a summer, and where I worked there was a team of students and scientists from Montana, that had come into that particular park with a half a million dollar budget to track and study Marmots in very close detail. If you want to take some money out of my paycheck for taxes that go to help an inner city student with a grant or loan to go to college, then I am all for that. If you want to take money from me so a bunch of yuppy mountain kids can hike around in a National Park all summer with the overblown idea that they are saving some kind of environmental trust when they are really just wasting money on some Sunday afternoon picnic masquerading as real science, then you can suck, well never mind.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Also, a close relative of mine worked in the Air Force for years as a computer programer, network manager, etc. etc. etc. and now does the same thing for them in a civilian capacity.

The squadron where he works rewired their entire system one year with all new cables and expanded their network and updated their system etc. etc. etc. That was just a couple of years ago, and this relative pretty much did all of the work himself, so that was fiscally responsible, of the squadron, but within the past year, even though there were no problems with the existing system, the squadron commanders decided they needed to rewire the entire Network again with all fiberoptic cables, and so they called in a contracter and spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on this project that was more just something to do with their overblown budget than anything that really contributed to the national defense.

Do you see what I am saying.

All of these expenditures may look good as one broad stroke in a budget that goes through Congress, but at the particular level, there is total waste of MY MONEY. Mine and that of every other tax paying american.

Should some artistic type who wants to travel across the country and photograph historic barns be able to go to the government and get a grant that also is MY MONEY, when I held a real job and worked in the real world for my real self and produced real goods and services to create the capital so he can go out and fulfill his dream.

His dream is great and he should fulfill it, but if his book doesn't sell well at Barnes & Noble then he should learn to face the real world as I do. He is responsible for his ambitions and I am responsible for mine.

Not only are there the expenditures themselves, but behind every dollar spent is some massive bureaucratic system that oversees every single penny and all of those people have to be paid, and they have to have computers, and printers, and office supplies, and business trips, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

We don't need to raise taxes, we need to bring a guillotine down on the head of an outrageous and totally uncontrollable glut of government's frivolity.

Of course, neither Republicans or Democrats even begin to have the resolve to actually rein in the budget.

Anyone who thinks any politician is going to be responsible with your money is delusional in the extreme.

Answer 8

It takes a village to raise a child - education costs, in my opinion are well worth a little extra taxes.

Answer 9

I am a firm believer in the Fair Tax system.

Answer 10

taxes are very useful so be patriotic just pay your taxes man just like what i did