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Old 01-20-2023, 20:17   #1
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Tax man cometh or goeth?

As our country hits the debt limit of 30 plus trillion dollars politics is showing its teeth.

The republicans are getting behind a national sales tax with a 30% markup. The major upside would be dissolving the IRS.

However, this is a regressive tax. Along with no IRS, capital gains and corporate taxes would be eliminated. Some preliminary numbers show that only the top 10% would actually receive a tax cut. Everyone else would pay the same or more of a percentage of income as you climb down the economic ladder.

On the flip side:
8 states ( all blue I believe) are countering with a wealth tax proposal. of course the pitch is its just the 1%. They need to pay their fair share. Blah blah blah.

CA as an example would impose 1.5% on assets above 1B and a threshold of 1% at the 50m level.

Like a boulder gathering speed as it rolls down hill, the top 1% are accumulating more and more of the new wealth created in this country. That does not bode well for future politics IMO. Progressives will cling onto this as they endeavor to fund all of their socialist agendas. Republican's will sell out their constituents to the billionaires for the right price. While the middle class get's bent over the table.

Human nature hasn't changed in forever. Just less testosterone. You have something I want. Give it to me or I'll take it from you. Just look at the last 3 years. It's why we outspend everyone else on defense.
Except at our borders.

Luckily for our politicians, we can kick this can down the road by printing money until we have garnered the same trust level as FTX and some bankrupt central American juntas.






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Old 01-20-2023, 22:27   #2
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Every time I look at that number, I wonder how our country got into so much debt. What has the leadership of this country been doing for the past 20 years? No matter how they swirl and twirl the tax schemes to try and make even a small dent in that it's not going to work. 30 trillion divided by 300 million comes out to about 100k for every person in this country. It's almost kind of hard to fathom that amount of debt.

Could we sell Alaska to China and pay off that debt? It's cold up there but full of oil.
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Old 01-21-2023, 02:58   #3
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Although I think it's a novel idea, they'll never get rid of the IRS, to big of a government self licking ice cream cone, and it has to much power..employs to many .gov workers, etc, etc..

That would be just like those congress critters voting for term limits....aint gonna happen.. JMO anyway..
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Old 01-21-2023, 18:14   #4
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A bit of perspective, 1-million seconds is 12-days and 1-billion seconds is just ubder 32-years while 1-trillion seconds is 30,000 years.
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