Well, let's see. What if our government had no money? We wouldn't be able to fight for our rights or defend ourselves against tyranical governments that would like nothing better than to control this great land of ours. There would be no money for grants that have paid for research that has created the artificial heart and other medical technologies that we take for granted. There would be no internet, or funds to pay electric bills for people who can't afford it. There would be no welfare. We would have no prisons. We would be broken up by all the dictatorships and communist countries in the world and ruled by tyrants. Is that what you want?
2006-10-22 07:52:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Render that unto Caeser which is owed Caeser. Having said that, the current taxation system unfairly burdens business owners and employees through the FUTA/SUTA and then catches them again with the Income tax. Given the number of spin off industries from the IRS Tax code (tax accountants, attornies, trust companies, financial planners, off shore banking, investment banking and the need to organize corporations into entities that are most efficient within the tax codes) it is time we eliminate the current taxation system. A tax tied to consumption vice production ensures a government that has to spend within its needs. We can maintain the Federal reserve, however the intent would be to become the funds management group for the Feds answerable to the GAO. Finally, we eliminate the need for the spin off industries and create a new smaller more efficient agency that ensures the flat tax is not only enforced through compliance but is equitably distributed throughout the states based upon a flat equitable percentage. The state still has the ability to collect sales tax, but each state would have to eliminate thier income tax; forcing it to use property tax and sales tax while balancing its budget. More money into your pocket as your pay rate is real time, not an inflated value to give you an after tax take home.
2006-10-22 15:04:18
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answered by Jim from the Midwest 3
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All this may be true, but have you ever lived in a tax-free country? Take Mexico, for example. No taxpayer money to pay police officers mean they make $300 per month and are highly corrupt.
The hospitals are questionable, mail rarely arrives where it's supposed to go, shower and tap water is full of bacteria, highways are not maintained and people are often robbed on them, since there aren't enough police officers.
Oh, and don't forget the streets are full of waste - human, animal, and other. Trash is heaped on empty or abandoned lots, even in the middle of neighborhoods, and there are stray, diseased animals everywhere.
The schools run by the government are the worst in the country. Just to get a decent education, one must pay the high
tuition of private school, as well as uniforms and textbooks.
Loans for cars, school or homes are almost impossible to get, rates are ridiculously high and one could easily be scammed because all the lenders are individuals, who could pack up and take off with your money.
Taxes don't seem like such a bad deal after all, do they?
2006-10-22 14:59:25
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe I read even in the costitution that the government has the right to impose taxes. So I would say that taxes are legal, even though I know people have been trying to challenge them for years, noone has suceeded. To me taxes are part of the price I pay to live where I do and how I want to. Noone really wants to pay taxes, but our tax dollars fund a lot of good programs as well, so as in all aspects of life....
You have to take the good with th bad.
2006-10-22 14:49:13
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answered by Anonymous
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The IRS should be abolished and replaced with a national sales tax. That way, there would be no loopholes and everyone would have to pay the same - no escape.
2006-10-22 14:49:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Money for nothing, and there chicks for free. They print up fake monopoly money, loan it to you. Then you have to pay it back with your labor. If you don't pay, they take it back and end up with real asses ts, like a house, for nothing .
2006-10-22 14:56:20
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answered by flip4449 5
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I pay taxes because they have more guns than we do.
2006-10-22 16:24:31
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answered by crimethinker1984 2
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i don't like paying taxes
2006-10-22 14:53:09
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answered by Anonymous
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