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Quote by: tman Rich people protect their money. Esp. from the government. There are easy ways of getting around income taxes (such as not having an income!). |
And there are ways to get around rich people getting around. It's a matter of political will.
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Has anyone considered a fair tax apprach? IE, a flat national sales tax. That way, everyone is taxed proportional to the amount that they buy.
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Uhh.. don't they have a sales tax where you live, t? They certainly do in Canada: a federal one and another in the provinces (in Ontario, for example, they add up to 15%).
So everyone is taxed on the amount they buy, including food and other essentials. That's fair? What it means, of course, is that the lower your income the higher percentage of it you have to pay to the government. In a way, that's sort of a perverted income tax in reverse.