Yes, House Republicans introduced a bill to create national sales tax, eliminate the need for the IRS

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• Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe try looking up the word ‘regressive’ in the context of taxes. I doubt that will happen so here, maybe this helps:

  What Is a Regressive Tax?

  The term regressive tax refers to a tax that is applied uniformly regardless of income. Regressive taxes take a larger percentage of income from low-income earners than from middle- and high-income earners

  So if you really want to fuck over poor people and benefit the wealthy, and obviously Republicans do, great way to do it.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How to say you didn’t read the article without saying it. That’s covered in the article.

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    • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, and you apparently learned how to say you didn’t understand the article without saying it. It’s wildly unfair to people with less money and you’re still presenting it as a good thing.

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• uzi@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The people who argue in favour of taxes, or argue for higher taxes, they never argue “I should pay more taxes”, they are only argue for shared misery of heavy taxation with jail time for anyone who is against being a slave to politicians voting themself pay raises and more benefits.

  Only politicians can engage in insider trading, for everybody else it’s a federal crime. But people still demand that politicians take more of their income.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why I always ask how much more that person is willing to pay. The typical answer is tax the rich. I’m already paying 50% of my income in taxes.

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    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m already paying 50% of my income in taxes

      doubt

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think I’m currently at ~30%, last I checked.

      Yes, tax the rich.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The highest tax bracket is 36%. Are you saying another 14% of your income is gobbled up through state tax, sales tax, property tax, etc.? I guess that’s entirely possible. If you throw health insurance premiums into the mix then it’s well above 50%. I just did my taxes a few weeks ago and my total health insurance premiums for the year, not counting co-pays, deductibles, prescriptions, etc. Was $29,664.72. That’s fucking insane. We need to fix that shit. People are opposed to a single payer healthcare system saying it’ll raise their taxes, but we’re already paying out the wazzoo for it. It would probably be cheaper.

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Add in the Korean lottery ticket receipt system and this would fix a lot of revenue problems.

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