Thread: Goodbye IRS?
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Old Aug 3, 2004, 09:25 am   #15 (permalink) (top)
Samildanach
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The idea has been round for years and years. A national tax on all goods and services is a very fair kind of tax IMO. If you are poor for example, you are buying less of everything. If you are rich you are buying more. It works out that the rich pay more but they also have the option not to pay if they choose not to, which they won't because they are used to and can afford more luxuries.
Everytime I have seen this idea come up though it has been squashed by the rich who control the govt because they pay next to no tax at the moment so why would they want to change the system.


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