• @[email protected]
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    109 months ago

    In my dreams, we have a flat tax of 30% over all income beyond 40k per year.

    And wouldn’t it be neat if, on the tax return form, there was question:

    Where would you like your tax dollars to go: • education • military • foreign aid • welfare programs • don’t care, equally distributed

      • lurch (he/him)
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        9 months ago

        How about 100% tax on all income, but everything is free in reasonable amounts. 😉

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Isn’t communism the devil or some dumb shit like that? We gotta protect our corporate overlords man, we wouldn’t want to live in a dictatorship where a very rich few control the world! /s

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      To some degree taxes need to be tied to cost of living. Someone making $70k in rural Texas vs NYC is going to have a very different cost of living and quality of life.

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      39 months ago

      Flat tax is nice in theory, but it’s horribly regressive. 30% would be a nice reduction in taxes for anyone making $230k + or so, while a dramatic increase for anyone under 90k

      • @Good_morning
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        29 months ago

        Yah I don’t remember the exact steps, but it involves getting loans with the stocks as collateral to avoid showing an income