Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis suggested that he would eliminate a number of government agencies during an interview on Wednesday. “Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies? I know conservatives in the past have talked about closing the Department of Education, would you do that?” Fox News’s Martha MacCallum asked the Florida governor on […]
So we would just be living in a country where taxes aren’t collected for anything? Why even have a country?
There was a brief period after the us got it’s independence where taxes were basically voluntary. As you can imagine, it was not a sustainable government
He says he’d move to a single rate system, which while simplified may be better than what we have now, it is still not good for the average person.
20% of my salary feels like a hell of a lot more of my paycheck than a CEO with a million a year.
For a person at 100k, they’re left with 80k. For a person with 1M, they’re left with 800k, still well above everyone else.
And that’s assuming DePuddin Fingers doesn’t put in any loopholes for his rich oligarchy friends.
I would support a simple system if it was a progressive rate as it is today. A flat single rate is always punitive to the poor.
Reduce the total rates and eliminate all deductions. Then it could be pretty reasonable to eliminate significant portions lf the IRS, only after income reporting is fully automated.