re: what should the tax rate be realistically?

0% income tax. Large tax on items/things. Consumption based - doesn't hurt the poor, you have full control over the amount you spend therefore control how much tax you pay. Richer people end up paying more because they have the means to consume more.

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I would rather a flat National sales tax. 12-15% with groceries exempt. I keep my check and pay taxes if I choose to spend it. Also gets rid of allot of irs bloat further reducing gov expenditure. Tyrone the drug dealer is now paying taxes on those sweet rims and skittles paint job. Rich people pay more as they buy more expensive shite.

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I'm in favor of a VAT + reduction in federal income taxes and corporation taxes by a significant amount.

Take down the top brackets to 20-25%, get rid of federal income taxes for most tax payers and implement a 10-15% VAT.

12% on all income earned over 10k. 3% national sales tax on all things except food. You can deduct charitable giving from earned income, up to 50k. No other deductions or credits.

The federal budget should also be tied directly to revenue. Each year's annual budget should be 1% less than the tax revenue from the prior year. Let congress fight over apportionment of funds within thoss boundaries. I would love for this part to be codified in an amendment, but that's the least likely policy in all of this.

bout 3.50%

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I think something like a VAT should be part of a scheme, but it can't be all of it.

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You can offset much of the regression by simply exempting essentials like food and health products. Therefore, only taxing non-essentials.

10% flat nobody gets refunded more than they pay.

The federal government used to run on Tariffs. Go back to that. The entire budget for the federal government should be under a trillion,, and that should be mostly national defense, border protection, large interstate infrastructure.

The fair tax bill, as written in HR 25, needs to be 21 to 23% to be Revenue neutral. That goes along with abolishing the IRS, and repealing the 16th Amendment. All households get an allowance at the beginning of the month, based on family size, of the expected amount of tax to be paid on necessary goods and services to alleviate the tax burden at the poverty line.

Prices at the point-of-sale would be approximately the same, as about 22% of the cost of Any Given item at the cash register are embedded corporate income taxes that are passed along all the way from the manufacturer, through the distribution chain, down to the consumer ultimately pays all of those corporate income taxes

Corporations do not pay income taxes, they merely collect them.

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Flat tax on everything purchased ... would capture black market and non-American cash. Less taxes that upstanding citizens need to pay.

Also, if you don't want to pay taxes, live in the woods and buy nothing.

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Been saying this forever. Can you imagine all the illegally made or underground economy cash being taxed in purchases? It will never happen tho. Sucks

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what should the tax rate be realistically?

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Lower.