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[–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Cut all the taxes. No more taxes for anybody. We'll rely entirely on borrowing to fund the Federal government, why not. We'll raise money by selling bonds. How we gonna pay the interest on those bonds? Sell more bonds. Forever and ever and ever. Easy. Foolproof.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (1 child)

    Interestingly debt and inflation are taxes.

    You could get rid of all the explicit taxes and make them implicit instead.

    This is a dishonest and terrible idea for so many reasons, but the hurr sure would probably vote for it because hey I’m not paying taxes because they think inflation is controlled by magical fairies but taxes are an oppressive government.

    We’re so cooked by stupid.

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  • [–] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    This is a dishonest and terrible idea for so many reasons, but the hurr sure would probably vote for it because hey I’m not paying taxes because they think inflation is controlled by magical fairies but taxes are an oppressive government.

    Yeah they'll complain either way. Americans want public services (even if they claim they don't) but they don't want to have to pay for them. And so here we are.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago

    This kind of makes me think we should just tax corporations at a high rate and leave people out of it.

    Like why not just collect all the taxes prior to payout? It should be the same amount of money but the vast majority of people will feel like they aren’t being taxed.

    Business owners will hate it but honestly they probably wouldn’t pay any more in taxes, it’s just changing the point of collection.

    Why wouldn’t this work?

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