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27 sats \ 16 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Jan \ parent \ on: William McKinley: Prostitute of Protectionism Politics_And_Law
Yes, you have some sort of control over the taxes you pay! With the income tax and Friedman’s withholding, you have absolutely no real control over the taxes you pay. I don’t think that the retailers and final sellers will like being tax collectors, though.
Probably not, but most places have some sort of sales tax already, so it wouldn't be much extra burden for most of them.
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Yes, but I think the problem is more like they would be collecting taxes and people’s ire for collecting taxes for the man. Most retailers and sellers don’t really want to get their customers angry at them. Just think of transferring your ire with the IRS over to your local mom and pop store. Do you think anybody would appreciate it?
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Good point.
There was mention of tasking the states with collecting the sales tax. If they would just go a little further down that road, they'd get to a better idea: just collect a head tax from the states.
That would allow states to levy the least intrusive taxes, as well as incentivize them to increase prosperity and disincentivize counting illegal immigrants towards their official population numbers.
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You’re kidding, aren’t you? Say for instance, you want to give this taxing authority to the states of California, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado and Illinois where there is no doubt about their abuse of taxing and spending systems. Just think of Newsome and Pritzger in charge of taxes for the federal government. I can imagine it would look like the DoD and the missing money there.
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What additional taxing authority do you see here?
This is just an obligation for them to turn over a certain amount of money to the feds, based on their populations. The states already have very broad taxing authority,
Also, I think people should leave those terrible states for their superior neighbors.
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This is just an obligation for them to turn over a certain amount of money to the feds, based on their populations. The states already have very broad taxing authority,
Do they have enough auditing power to make sure the money gets to where it is supposed to go? This just doesn’t meet the smell test for those places.
Also, I think people should leave those terrible states for their superior neighbors.
I guess there are those amongst us that just don’t mind being sheered every year. The persist in living in those states because they think the weather is good or there are plenty of jobs or something.
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Whose auditing are you worried about?
The feds will know if a large enough transfer was made to them. Anything else raised through state taxes would just go to the state government, like it does now.
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The feds will know if a large enough transfer was made to them. Anything else raised through state taxes would just go to the state government, like it does now.
Are you sure about that? I don’t think it is all going to the state government. I think a there is a big slip between the cup and the lip.