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Originally posted by cluck
Flat tax would never, ever, ever work. To equal the amount of money our government rakes in(and we do need that, and even more after recent happenings), everyone would have to get taxed more than the poor to middle class people can afford. Capitalism + flat tax = economic collapse.
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Sure it would.
Government is really simple - I should run for president.
If this country didnt spend so much money, we wouldnt need to pay 30% of our wages to it in taxes.
If we drasticly cut spending, we could run this country in the black. The federal government has gotten way too big. It was orginally intended only to protect the nations borders from invasion and to uphold the consitution and nothing else. Now it has gotten itself into everything from spam prosecution to tree planting.
When I say drasticly cut spending, I mean:
- Disband NASA completely.
- Bring all of our troops home - and I dont just mean Iraq. No more of this police man for the world bullshit.
- Cease participation in the United Nations, which does nothing for us yet somehow we always end up footing thier bills.
- Elminate welfare, food stamps and other products of socialism.
- Stop funding for all government "giveaway" programs like art grants and all this other crap.
- Cap the salary of ALL government employees at $35,000.00 per year.
- Make ALL elected posts within government on ALL levels non-paid, volunteer positions.
- Make social security contributions voluntary.
- Eliminate the tens of thousands of non-productive, over-paid government employees in the agencies mentioned above.
- Get rid of the Ad Council, which is an agency that uses public money to buy advertising time from the media to run various feel good commercials. It is a roundabout way of bribing the media.
- Make extensive use of voluntary convict labor from non-violent felons. Allow them to earn credit on thier sentances for working without compensation of any kind on building roads, painting bridges, etc. It is possible to rehabilitate certain people (others are simply a lost cause) but we have GOT to get out of the business of warehousing people.
- Legalize drugs. Yes, thats right. All of them. No only will our law enforcement system be less burdened withdrug cases and no more war on drugs but people woulnt be killing each other over something that is avaliable for $9.95 at your local 7-11. THIS is the soultion the gang problem people talk about.
If all of these steps were done, we could reduce the amount of taxes people pay by 75%. The government has turned into one big massive spending machine. A flat tax could work if the system is brought back under control.