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Luminous Animal

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21. The mass accumulation & retention of wealth in the hands of a few creates
Sat Jan 12, 2013, 08:47 PM
Jan 2013

a feudal system. All power becomes consolidated and thus wielded by a few not the many. That is undemocratic.

Flat tax - Everyone should pay, not just the middle class and working poor. DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #1
I could live with that. ancianita Jan 2013 #2
Most could not 'live with' a flat sales tax RobertEarl Jan 2013 #18
Is your explanation sticking with the federal income tax idea in the OP? Are sales taxes that ancianita Jan 2013 #19
Never heard of flat tax on income RobertEarl Jan 2013 #30
If the poor don't get taxed at all theKed Jan 2013 #31
Okay. But a flat tax that denies all current corporate and financial sector loopholes such that ancianita Jan 2013 #36
Well like I say, theKed Jan 2013 #41
Nope. I guess I'm a progressive tax person. But we do already have that. So what everyone's really ancianita Jan 2013 #45
Well, there's things like theKed Jan 2013 #50
That would raise taxes on the working poor to draconian levels. Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #5
I'm not following you. If everyone were taxed at the same rate, that would be worse than people like DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #7
Flat tax proposals are right wing nonsense. Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #8
You really believe that if Apple, Google, Microsoft, big oil, pharma, banks, defense, and DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #11
Actually, that's the way the math does add up Warpy Jan 2013 #29
people that pay little income tax because they don't make very much would be ThomThom Jan 2013 #25
You're cool with taking food out of the mouths of the poor Warpy Jan 2013 #26
I'd make it more progressive. burnsei sensei Jan 2013 #3
examples? DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #4
Treat all income the same. Add more brackets back into the rates. Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #6
I agree with using the revenue to fund medicare rather than useless military crap DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #9
I haven't problem taxing people at a rate proportionate to the wealth that they control. Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #12
I disagree. their having the wealth isn't what is undemocratic. The gov't and tax system we had in p okaawhatever Jan 2013 #17
The mass accumulation & retention of wealth in the hands of a few creates Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #21
Oh, I see your point, I was thinking more of how they got there. There are 2 problems, one with okaawhatever Jan 2013 #24
They SHOULD pay a higher percentage than we do... truebluegreen Jan 2013 #34
I get what you're saying and you have a really good point but I just can't bring myself to DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav Jan 2013 #40
But my point about disproportionate benefits truebluegreen Jan 2013 #52
I disagree with the funding of medicare, because of where the money is going. Ex: Bush's Part D Medi okaawhatever Jan 2013 #20
I agree with you ThomThom Jan 2013 #27
That's right, all income is income, even those stock options Warpy Jan 2013 #28
This. truebluegreen Jan 2013 #35
I'd be fine with most of that. nt Ilsa Jan 2013 #38
I'd make it more deeply progressive. Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #10
End the SS cap -- kinda Freddie Jan 2013 #13
The Medicare idea is a very good one! Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #22
My dream tax system Recursion Jan 2013 #14
Tax wealth, safeinOhio Jan 2013 #15
What a novel idea.... librabear Jan 2013 #47
+1,000 alittlelark Jan 2013 #51
Flat tax is regressive & overly favors the wealthy. It does capture tax on the underground economy okaawhatever Jan 2013 #16
that`s what i was going to say...50`s rates madrchsod Jan 2013 #23
The top 10% should be paying about 65% of revenues and Corporations 35% Motown_Johnny Jan 2013 #32
Let me count the ways..... SoCalDem Jan 2013 #33
you realize that..... librabear Jan 2013 #48
One detail: Offer tax credits for consumers buying Ilsa Jan 2013 #37
The very first thing I'd do is tie the budget to tax revnue, keeping a progressive scale. 1-Old-Man Jan 2013 #39
capital gains, dividends have at least as high a tax rate as labor income Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #42
Make everyone pay but me doc03 Jan 2013 #43
Tax changes Wva 4-20mamp Jan 2013 #44
reading some of the ideas, bigapple1963 Jan 2013 #46
Flat tax for everyone making $500,000 or more per year jmowreader Jan 2013 #49
Flat tax for ALL people/companies over 1.5X poverty. NO exemptions. NO loopholes. OneTenthofOnePercent Jan 2013 #53
End Corporate Income Tax FreeJoe Jan 2013 #54
Make the rich pay all the taxes! B Calm Jan 2013 #55
I have a flat tax plan pkz Jan 2013 #56
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