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As the 2024 campaign neared its send, candidate Donald Trump began promising that, if elected, he would support the elimination of income taxes. Shortly after he was sworn in, Trump then began saying he planned to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. The Trump team claimed in each case that it could raise enough tax revenue from tariffs to replace tax revenue from income taxes.
By March, however, Trump began backtracking, and his administration announced that the new goal was to eliminate income taxes for people making under $150,000 per year.
That last development on its own tells us that the IRS isn’t going away. If people making more than $150,000 are still going to pay income tax, then there will still be an IRS to which we’ll need to send tax returns to prove we’re not making more than $150,000.
But even if we ignore that problem, there are at least two other reasons why we can be sure the IRS isn’t going anywhere. The first way we know this is from the fact that the Trump administration is only talking about “abolishing” the progressive individual income tax. Administration mouthpieces have said nothing at all about getting rid of the income taxes known as “payroll taxes” that every wage earner pays.
The second way we know that the IRS isn’t going away is that taxes on imports—i.e., tariffs—simply aren’t going to bring in enough revenue to keep funding all the popular spending programs that Trump clearly has no interest in cutting.
Yes, another political deception in action and many just don’t quite understand because the education in finances, money and mathematics is very deficient. The author points out the various clues to the deception going on and how the wool is being pulled over our eyes. The main one being that the administration and other politicians never mention all payroll taxes, they only talk about income taxes. There are a lot of reasons for it but it comes down to the fact that we demand certain support from other people or a tax on all for all. Just wonderful, isn’t it? I would say that we have control our desires and envy if we want to control the state and its actions.
I don’t think the article is correct. I recall seeing the administration discussing replacing all of the IRS taxes with tariffs and a national sales tax.
They’re probably correct about that not happening, though.
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I'd be really curious to see how that would work out.
But you're right, probably not happening. We already had this huge freakout over tariffs
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I am not too curious about that because I could probably not afford any imported goods, anymore after that implementation of tariffs. The state was very different before 1913 and afterword, making the two situations completely at odds.
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I’d certainly take that trade. We’ll probably just get tariffs and a sales tax on top of everything else, though.
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I don’t think there is any way to cut expenditures enough to make tariffs and sales taxes cover them without deficits. Well, maybe, but the sales taxes would be ridiculously high and tariffs prohibitive. I don’t think there is any way out of this conundrum but by reducing the size and span of the state. However, I don’t see that happening, either.
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I didn't check their work, but they were talking about something like 25% sales tax and 30% tariffs.
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Do you think either of them would go over on the domestic or international stages? I would only pay the 25% if there were no other taxes imposed upon me, like mileage taxes, property taxes and etc. I don’t think the WTO would go for 30% for everything, either. How much do you think they could get away with?
Do you really think that tariffs and sales taxes could replace payroll taxes? Perhaps not, according to this author.
No, once that have us enslaved to the payroll taxes, I don’t think they would emancipate us from their thrall. After all, it seems that we are demanding the collar because we are demanding the goods and services that the collar buys.
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It certainly could replace the revenue. Perhaps not the other functions.
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It wouldn’t come close to replacing the control that the state and our overlords have on us. There would be too many ways to dodge those taxes. Smuggling would make a big comeback, much bigger than it is now.
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But, if you get a regime that doesn't understand or want those domestic control elements, it might get dumped.
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Where does such a regime exist? If the overlords are part of the regime, they will fight to keep the status quo. This is about like finding politicians that are not interested in power, pelf and lucre.