Federal or state income taxes, legal, fail, and just?

How do you folk feel about a flat 10% tax across the board, without any exceptions, period?

Public Comments

1. Is fair. Our current progressive tax system punishes those who work harder and rewards those who work less. Unfortunately it will never happen. Liberals want endless funding for their social projects, which in most instances benefit them. Every survey done: majority of homeless and felons identify themselves as a democrat.
2. I agree with the theory but have much distrust of the implementation. One of the problems that arises is how do you account for income derived from money that already has had tax paid. Generally, total income will include both the interest (on which tax is owed) and a portion of the principal (on which no tax is owed). This isn't a deal killer but it is an example of the horrible tangle that is our current tax code.
3. depends , food should never be taxed.Superannuation should not be taxed only the profit made from any investments it is used for. alcohol and cigarettes are a cash cow so they should be taxed. Taxation is not about fairness in the sense that everybody pays little and has heaps of money, it about everyone making their contribution to the countries coffers to supply infrastructure and provide services based on the capacity to pay. The worst thing you can do in an economy long term is give everyone heaps of spending money , the first thing that will happen is that debt and interest rates will go up, and go up high.that then slows the economy down and people could end up with less spending money than before the tax cuts. tax cuts are always a a bandage solution to an overheated economy and instead of tax cuts the money should be plowed back into the hospitals, schools and welfare programs as a buffer. There are also issue around making retailers and suppliers de facto tax collectors
4. Obviously not. It concerns proper representation of said taxes. Senatorial and congressional so-called elected leaders are fraudulantly misrepresenting their own consistuants, much less the rest of the country or for the good of this country. The fact is that they are receiving money for services supossedly rendering, thus they are legally liable for both their behavior and actions, they are considered professionals in the eyes of legal justice. So why are they allowed to both commit the fraud plus go unpunished for the said crime; isn't that double ignorance? Absolutely, it should be a crime, instead of simply ignored by both the public and the Justice Department. Can someone awaken J. Edgar Hoover? Where are the rebellious Sons of Liberty? Whatever happened to our sense of fair play and the American Revolutionary code of honor? Have we lost the only good trait of Democracy, which defined this nation? Where is the bang for our buck? Have we grown cold and infifferent, quite apathetically, lukewarm to governmental dictatorial leadership? Can we not go back to England? Serfdom, now, seems most appealling.
5. While I think that any form of income taxation is still "theft", it would certainly be an improvement if we went to a system that didn't take hours to complete and carry serious penalties for a mistake caused by the complexity of the scheme.
6. Taxes, in general, can never be that simple. It would be nice to downsize the IRS -- or at least folks to write their booklets and document that speak the same English I speak.