Originally posted by Greadius
I think I'd prefer it that way... much more progressive than sales taxes.
Progressive?
what are you, nutz?
taxes should be:
low property taxes that go to municipalities
10% sales taxes that go to the province/state
and income tax collected by the federal government
the income tax should be step-sloped
whats a step slope? an invention of mine. here.
lets say you make 99,999 units of currency in one taxation time unit {hey, its just easier to calculate this way} 99,999 or less units gets 10% tax, while 100,000 or more gets 11% tax. so, right now you pay the gov 9,999.90 units of currency. meaning, you get to keep 89,999.10 units. if, per chance, you make one cent unit more, then you now must pay 11,000 units, so you now keep 89,000.00
thats outragous! make less money for making more! what ever will we do!
easy
slope it. for each 2 cents more you make, the gov can only take away 1. so:
make=keep
99,999=89,999.10
100,000=89,999.60
and so on...
the 1 to 2 cent ratio may not stay as it, but there should be a slope that ensures that by making more, you dont, actually, make less.
beyond that, the tax rates should be:
6.666(repeating forever)% property tax
10% sales tax
50% income tax
for a total of 66.66666...% tax rate {2/3rds}
the money should then be used to redistribute the wealth. to pay for things like national health care, and to build roads that dont need toals to run. as well as provide refunds to the people that paid the taxes in the first place, when possible.
also, I do not belive in a flat tax. instead, I belive that a national servy should be taken, and the 'living wage' came to. this would be the minimum ammount of money needed to survive. the government would then tax businesses, highley, and pay everyone in the nation this wage,
if they work. businesses can then increase upon that, as it would become a "minimum wage". I also belive the government should buy you: an apartment, in special government houses. this would be a very small apartment, about 20X20 feet probably, 1 room, which would act as bathroom, bedroom, livingroom, and kitchern. thay should also buy you nessacary food items. like bread, etc. not too much though. and they should buy you a car. a real crappy 2 seater car that dosent go faster then 100kph. this should all be taken away from the living wage. so essencially, if you want to live in a norma house, with a normal car, and normal food, you gotta work hard for it! but if you wanna laze around all day, go right ahead. this would mean, though, that a business wouldent need to pay their workers anything! though, people would rather work for a dollar a day then nothing! (remember, thier living wage is already paid for by the government!)
this is a very socailist system, but hey, I
am a left-liberal maniac
and guess where I love.
