Maggie's Farm

I do not agree with making tips a non-taxable income. It makes no sense at all except to try to buy votes with someone else's money. Our taxes should be fair and not used as a political club or carrot. We should have a flat tax system. Perhaps 10% minimum on all income and two graduations of 20% and 30% at higher income levels. No deductions, no exemptions, no special treatment.

Same thing for the child tax credit. The tax system shouldn't leave anyone so broke that they must be handed money to support their family. A proper tax system wouldn't take so much money from you that they had to give some back to raise your children.

If you were Zach I would know your motives. But I admit I don't know your motives and will give you the benefit of the doubt.

Tax, all taxes, are a terrible thing. If I were to tax you, YOU would have me jailed. It is theft under the threat of arrest and prison. But we can all agree that governments need some money to function so we have selected various taxes to provide that money. You don't have to be very smart to realize that the balance of power on taxes has been very badly tipped in the favor of government. They have misused the power we gave them to provide a minimum government and have created a bloated and all powerful government that wastes at least half of the tax revenues we send them. One of the ways they do this is to carve out special interest groups and reward them in turn for votes. FRAUD in other words. We allow this by not stopping it. We can't stop it because the government taxes the few to give to the many and the many elect the politicians.

My suggestion is part of the reason this works is so many pay no taxes. Therefore I suggest everyone with any kind of income pay a minimum tax on the full amount, no deductions or exemptions. BUT it gets worse. They have bastardized the tax code to make it welfare. You don't need to have paid a penny in tax to get a "refund", sometimes this "refund" is quite sizable. In DC speak this tax code welfare is called a "credit".

What YOU are advocating is to continue to steal from the rich to give to the poor so the fraud can continue. In left wing pseudo-liberal/socialist speak this is called "fairness". Well we all know there is nothing "fair about it, it is stealing and voter fraud AND this and other fraudulent schemes by the federal government is exactly what has caused the demise of the black family and an equal number of poor white families.

You seem to feel good about this sad state of our government and society and in fact so good that it pleasures you to call anyone who would prefer honest government and a better society "math-ignorant, reading comprehension-challenged taxpayers are who argue for simplification". Makes no sense to me. Except perhaps that you might be a generation X or Millennial.

I am pre-boomer and I didn't grow up thinking the government has the right to take by force and buy off voters with the stolen money. I'm too old to change my mind so I guess as Oprah says you will just have to wait until I die.