REPUBLICANS Plan Push For ELIMINATION OF IRS

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2004-08-03 09:12pm

Out of curiousity, do any of you non US residents pay any form of income tax? I'm interested to see how other governments rob, er.. tax, their citizens.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-08-03 09:21pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:Out of curiousity, do any of you non US residents pay any form of income tax? I'm interested to see how other governments rob, er.. tax, their citizens.

Most western governments derive a majority of their funding from income taxes, although there are significant variations as to the exact structure of the tax.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-08-04 02:12am

Darth Wong wrote:Once you remove food and rent, I'd imagine that the tax burden of the poor becomes much more manageable.

Yes, but the poor also spend all or more of their excess money on shit they don't need. You might say that they therefore deserve what they get, but the situation harms society as a whole.

And you could have a surtax on obscenely ostentatious luxury items such as Ferraris.

Those types of taxes hit the lower class workers and middle class owners a lot harder than they hit the rich, because they stop buying them as much.