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Old 12-22-2005, 10:59 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
If you paid a consumption rather than an income tax, your tax dollars would still support the schools. Actually, most school funding comes from property taxes.
Or, if you keep more of your money and you want to help kids, who's going to stop you. You could adopt a family, you could fund a music program at a school, you could set up a scholarship program. If you had extra money you could do what Bill Gates does with his foundation, just on a smaller scale. Wouldn't it be nice to have the power to make your own choice on how you would help others.



If you want complication. We could not tax toilet paper.
Understand that the guy who buys a $80,000 car every other year will get big tax bills everyother year. If you spend $100 on toliet paper per year, the tax might be $5. And remember under the current system the guy buying the $80,000 car, most likely uses it for "business" and has a tax write-off for it. The family of four buying the toilet paper has no creative ways to lower taxes.



That is my goal too.
I say let people work, save and then when they can live off their investments let them. If I work my but off for 20 years and save every penny, and then one moring I wake-up with a few million saved isn't that better than - working my but off for 20 years and having the government take everything I would have saved, wake-up one morning and have nothing but a promise of social security but then only if I work another 20.
See I work for 20 years and I've saved what I could from what I didn't pay in taxes, I don't want someone to take that too! Which is why once I've converted to stocks, bonds, property, then I will fight to not pay to much taxes on those things as I currenlty do.

I did not buy property in one part of NY because the taxes are far outstripping the services rendered from the local government. No thank you.

Sure luxury tax, I have no issue with them. I didn't buy a luxury car because I don't see the value in it. Depreciating asset with money just evaporating while it sits in the garage 25 days out of the month.
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