Time for a flat tax

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

And what about those who don't get paychecks? Small business owners or self employed people? You taxing their income? Their profit? How u figuring profit? Depreciability of assets? What about income from the purchase and sale of capital good?

We don't live in Ancient Sparta where laws were few because the complexities of life were few. We live in a complex economic and social mileiu where real fairness does not lend itself towards simple answers.

And to add on; are you going to tax people on the money they're using to spend on financing their house? Are you going to tax them on the money they're using to fund their own retirement? Are you going to tax them on their out-of-pocket healthcare expenses? How about they money they're paying back on loans they used to fund their college education?

As a government, shouldn't you encourage your citizens to go to college, to buy a house, to pay for preventative healthcare, to fund their own retirement? These are all investments in the future of our nation in their own way.

The tax code should not be simplified for the sake of being simple. It's complex because as JR said, we live in a complex world. If it seems too complex, you can always go buy TurboTax to help with your taxes.