>I remember Ron Paul saying we could do away with personal income tax - and providing facts to back up his argument - and people thought he might be crazy.
Income tax is a word that disguises the more accurate but insidious term: protection money.
If the govt wanted to to collect money 'legitimately' then should charge for their services. (so for example a big truck can pay more tax than say a car for use of the road).
Of course we know that since governments will generally do a worse job than private entities, so they will stick to income tax.
every word in your comment is wrong, somehow. your views seem rooted very strongly in the idea that "private enterprise can do anything well" and that is an opinion which does not agree with any of the experiences of my entire life.
businesses know how to give profit to shareholders and owners, and they do not know how to do simple things like keeping different departments each from doing work which invalidates the work of the other department.
I mean have you ever worked for a business? they are all giant messes masquerading as organized entities.
it is laughable to think that a business could be better at most things that the government now does.
"It is laughable to think that a business could be better at most things that the government now does."
I can't imagine what experience you've had to believe this. I've been in the work force for 20 years and for the most part, the shittiest businesses I've seen have been magnitudes more competent than what I've seen of government.
>I mean have you ever worked for a business? they are all giant messes masquerading as organized entities.
Lol, have you ever worked for the government? Nothing will ever clean up their mess. With businesses ( which are not aided by the govt in someway) latest one day they will perish if they are not profitable.
(Yep, I have worked for 3 decades with businesses, and probably know about 10 people who work for the government)
Income tax is a word that disguises the more accurate but insidious term: protection money.
If the govt wanted to to collect money 'legitimately' then should charge for their services. (so for example a big truck can pay more tax than say a car for use of the road).
Of course we know that since governments will generally do a worse job than private entities, so they will stick to income tax.