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Originally Posted by smooth
you have a warped notion of taxation.
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nothing warped about it, its my tax reality.....
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Taxation isn't and shouldn't be based on one's income. Taxation should be based on use.
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you are absolutely right and I agree 100% but the current system is not based upon usage but upon income.
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When you walk into a store and purchase a commodity, you pay a percentage of your consumption.
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under the current STATE sales tax system this is true. there is nothing in the federal tax code that addresses consumption other than the gas tax.
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When you own property, you pay a tax on it, as well. Presumably to entice you to produce from the land.
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again you are talking about STATE property taxes. I pay no federal property tax and I doubt you do either.
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Your yearly tax intended to pay for the government programs you've utilized all year long--that should be based off your use as well.
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I utilize no government programs throughout the year other than the IRS when they review my tax return therefore using your sense of taxation I should have to pay nothing.
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Where you get the idea that taxation should be based off one's income, and that the only fair tax is to have everyone pay an equivalent percentage of their income is off kilter--and is only because the only income taxation scheme you've been exposed to is equally off-kilter.
But you already admitted you were off kilter. If you think the democrats are overtaxing you, that's another bizarre assertion of yours.
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I admit I'm off kilter, especially this time of year. I have to pay additional income taxes, property tax and personal property tax {they are two different taxes here in the state I live in} is due next month. With all these fricken taxes who wouldn't be insane! But I sure don't see the Republicans standing in line to raise taxes like the Democrats. I may not have gotten a tax break from the Republicans but my tax percentage ain't went up either from the Republican tax policy.
If you think the current tax system is one of taxing consumption you Sir are off kilter also and I respectively disagree.
Currently we are born free and taxed to death!