Should income, wealth, or both be taxed?
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Income yes except for those that make poverty wages; wealth no, that would be like taxing someones income twice.
277802
Probably.  There is a heirarchy when they come to atach your wages, and taxes are very high on the list.
52160
I would say that I agree with the no attack ads.  The electoral system also has serious issues. The idea of the presidents salary coming from a check box on your tax form might not be a bad idea but I believe that it is far past time to reform the tax issue and do away with income tax altogether. The fair tax as it has been presented by Neal Boortz is an exceptional idea that spreads the taxes evenly amongst ALL.
63110
I would say no. If you have no income you haven't paid any federal witholding tax.
177156
Yes. All tips should be 100% tax free. Individual people paying other individual people for private services have already paid taxes on that money a dozen times over.
1071060
I'm not sure about your question--which is better?\n\nWhen you have a mortgage, early on the bulk of the payments are interest, and you can deduct that amount on  your income tax.  A good deal.
951248
If you can get away with not paying your workers you will be wealthy. It is an investment, albeit an immoral one.
1022122
i dont think there should be any taxes
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I see no difference between a property tax, use tax, sales tax or income tax as far as the government's power to levy.  However, you should consider that most taxable property has the ability to generate income.  When real property produces a continuous benefit to the owner (as opposed to a cheeseburger eaten and digested), I think it's fair to tax that benefit.
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pro - simplify the tax process\n\ncon - poor and middle class would pay higher taxes\n\nfor the people who think a flat tax would not hurt poor people, \nif aprox. 17% of income is collected as tax revenue and rich people pay over 30% of their income to irs where would the shortfall come from?
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I certainly think so.\n\nA flat tax is very fair - everyone gets hit by exactly the same proportion.\n\ngraduated rates punish you for succeeding financially.\n\nOf course, some people think that financially successful people SHOULD be hit harder on their taxes - after all "they can afford it".  Pretty bogus reasoning.\n\nEdit: dorioncanada - you think that a flat tax is unfair?  I'm utterly baffled - could you explain why you feel that way?
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I say we keep it.  The estate tax only kicks in after a certain amount of money is involved.  Most of the arguments against it try to paint a picture of 'thanks to this darn estate tax, we can't keep the farm now that dad's passed away'.....this is totally incorrect and misleading.  The exemptions on the tax cover estates up to several million dollars- which safely covers most modest estates of hard working families.  \n\nWe're talking about millions and millions of dollars before the tax is enacted on a particular estate, leaving more than enough for any benefactors to live comfortably.\n\nSo some heiress only gets 20 million instead of 30......I'm crying for them- no, really.
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No, you shouldn't make enough money to have to pay any other kinds of taxes.  In fact, you may even get a refund.
108979
Wealth should never be redistributed or built by the government for individuals within the society. Each person is responsible for themselves and those within their own family unit.\n\nSo with this in mind, the obvious answer is YES, sustaining the economy is more important than any socialist wealth building programs.
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I think get jobs would probably be the best!\n\nWhy does the left always want to tax the rich.  If you get a nice house I think you should give half of it to charity.  By the way it's the only fair thing to do.  Practice what you preach.  I am sure once you make money you will forget about taxing the rich......
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If anyone thinks the rich are hard working.. you either don't know any of them or you are one and you don't know that other people work much harder...\n\nThat being said... Bush equates taxing the rich to communism and socialism... and people run away saying it's bad and evil... \nNo... it's fair... I pay my taxes and they should too... but most of them get huge breaks and loopholes... that my friend is crap...
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Depends on how much money that you have, as to wheather we are too wealthy or not.\n\nSee the webpage below.