[darstar]

Originally Posted by Driller1

Nice. How will you pay for this??

A war tax. We have done it before.... Its time for our tax dollars to remain right here at home. Also , Buy American ! I am not a flag waver , but , enough is enough.........!

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by darstar

A war tax. We have done it before.... Its time for our tax dollars to remain right here at home. Also , Buy American ! I am not a flag waver , but , enough is enough.........!

I tell ALL my supplies I want American made whenever possible. We switched pump bands two years ago for that reason.

[darstar]

Originally Posted by Driller1

I tell ALL my supplies I want American made whenever possible. We switched pump bands two years ago for that reason.

Good for you. If more out there followed along , it would be more jobs for more people , hopefully legal ones.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by MI-IRISH

Flat tax across the board for all people,t

Would your flat tax apply to THINGS rich folks buy, such as stocks and bonds?

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by ergohead

Would your flat tax apply to THINGS rich folks buy, such as stocks and bonds?

Buying stocks is an investment. Not just rich folks buy stocks and bonds. Anyone with a retirement does.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by Driller1

Buying stocks is an investment. Not just rich folks buy stocks and bonds. Anyone with a retirement does.

Buying a pickup truck, or vitamins, is not an investment? Lot's of folks buy these kind of things for their retirement.

What is your point about buying an "investment" versus something from Dairy Queen anyway? A buy is a buy, no?

I assume we are talking about a FLAT SALES TAX.

Or, was MI-IRISH's query about a FLAT INCOME TAX?

Income is a very slippery word.

[MI-IRISH]

flat sales tax,like i said across the board,if the income tax was taken off your check,and a national sales tax instituted,one you would see more money on the check,and two for the sales tax,everyone would pay the same amount,no loopholes,so one state that pays 4% and another that pays 6% would even out,and the playing field would even out for the states that have a higher margin

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by MI-IRISH

flat sales tax,like i said across the board,if the income tax was taken off your check,and a national sales tax instituted,one you would see more money on the check,and two for the sales tax,everyone would pay the same amount,no loopholes,so one state that pays 4% and another that pays 6% would even out,and the playing field would even out for the states that have a higher margin

OK What "loopholes" do you have a problem with??

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by ergohead

I assume we are talking about a FLAT SALES TAX.

Many European countries HAVE a flat sales tax.

It is deliberately misnamed Value Added Tax. What a distortion!

It should rightly be called a Value Subtracted Tax.

You just don't "add value" to a sale by siphoning off part of the transaction to the Government.

I think that a Value Subtracted Tax would significantly slow down the rigged-roulette-wheel that is Wall Street.

Investors would make more careful and less speculative or manipulative purchases.

I don't think Ponzi Schemes could exist in an atmosphere of Real Investment (Bets placed on productive and marketable capability of Real Things).

Uh-Oh! There goes the Social Security Neighborhood! This Ponzi Scheme depends on increasing the population of workers, year after year - Bring in the Mexicans, who, by direction of their religion, reproduce like rabbits. No condoms, no abortions, no self-discipline. Must increase worker population to increase "investment" in the Social Security Ponzi Scheme. So, yeah, I think Baracko will be granting amnesty citizenship to all the illegals. It's the only way the Ponzi can continue. Poor Bernard Madoff - He wasn't able to illegally import investors.

Now the question - Where are the increased-everyones going to find a job? Oh, I know - let them serve more hamburgers to the increased-everyone. And, if that don't work, order everyone to consume more hamburgers! But, won't the increased-everyone begin to decline as a result of the increased consumption of hamburgers? Yes, but luckily, right at the age they begin receiving Social Security Benefits. So, you see, it all works out for the best.

When a person borrows from a bank, he, she, or it is really purchasing the use of money, the price of which is the interest charge - Yeah, there should be a sales tax on the interest charge.

And, of course, Sales Taxes should not be applied to Individuals who sell things, like - their labor, their house, their pickup truck, their services, their stocks, their money, etc.

Yup! You got it! - Sales taxes should only apply to Corporations making sales - not to Individuals making sales.

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by ergohead

Buying a pickup truck, or vitamins, is not an investment? Lot's of folks buy these kind of things for their retirement.

What is your point about buying an "investment" versus something from Dairy Queen anyway? A buy is a buy, no?

I assume we are talking about a FLAT SALES TAX.

Or, was MI-IRISH's query about a FLAT INCOME TAX?

Income is a very slippery word.

It would depend on what to intend to do with the "return" from your Dairy Queen buy.