Letters to the Editor
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Tolerance, brother, tolerance.
The issue is not whether I can tolerate freedom, it's whether I can tolerate dumb-asses who state since I don't have the same opinions as they do I cannot tolerate freedom.
The reality is the tax system as it is today is unfair. If you are married filing jointly and your income is $63,700 you pay 15%, if you make $63,701 you pay 25%. A 10% tax liability swing for a buck. This is fair - how?
Contrast this to the high end incomes. If you make 349,700 your tax is 33%, if $349,701 you pay 35%. A 2% percent swing for a buck. Still sucks, but alot less. Then to add injury to insult, if you make 100 kabillion zillion dollars you pay at the same rate as the shlob who made $349,701. And this is fair - how?
Sales taxes are inherently unfair to lower and middle income people. No fukkin' around with the numbers or "prebates" can change that.
The only thing I believe that has a chance at fair, is a flat tax on ALL income, NO EXCEPTIONS or endless fukked up formulas.
Inheritance, simple interest, gambling, work, capital gains, real estate gains, lemonade stands, etc. At 10% (just to pick a number) the person making $20,000 a year pays $2,000. The person making $200,000 pays $20,000. The person making 20 kabillion zillion dollars pays 2 kabillion zillion dollars. Now I know paying 2 kabillion zillion dollars in taxes is a lot of money, but come on, the 18 kabillion zillion dollars left is not exactly pocket change.