snakeoil wrote:I have another take on the problem:
1. Can we afford to give tax breaks for moving jobs overseas?
2, Can we afford to give GE a $147 million tax refund after paying zero taxes in the first place?
3. Can we afford to exempt pipeline owners from taxes while their net profit is over 50%?
4. Can we exempt the NFL from all taxation even though they made $11 billion in 2010?
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5. Can we afford to privatize our assets for immediate gains so that taxes will have to be raised today?
5. Can we afford to take a meat axe to government spending without harming the country?
6. Can we afford a do-nothing Congress closing their eyes to the ills of the country?
7. On the state level, can we afford to give tax breaks to companies, at a cost of $1 million per job, to locate on our state?
8. Can we afford to have a complex tax code that give massive tax breaks to special interests?
We are in an emergency. Can't we pass an emergency tax measure for only one year? What if we eliminate the mortgage deduction just for one year with a certain cap on the maximum tax? What if we tax each person $50 just for one year? What if we taxed each business a minimum tax just for one year?
These measures are stupid and will hurt but this is an emergency and something has to be done.
Personally, I see the chart like this:
1) Democrat rule shows constant Job Losses - negative economic impact - get Democrats out of office
2) No tax break/assistance for anything done outside the USA, not for any fragment of it
3) Pipeline taxes - I can see giving them a break, but only to about a 50% credit, never more, they must still pay tax
4) NFL - there is nothing worthy of tax breaks here, do completely away with any tax breaks
5) Privatize - yep, move away from the corruption and waste of Gov programs - there isn't a single gov program that can't be done better and more efficiently outside of government.
5) Meat Axe - to fix it, if we really want to fix it, it's going to hurt after so many decades of failure to do anything to fix it - too bad, it will do less harm in the long run if we just bite it now.
6) Remove all politicians, impose 2 term term limits, ban parties, pay only the average of what the workers in the state make, all bills must be voted on, impose fines for any politician that doesn't do their job
7) Bigger problem is giving breaks/money to companies that go bankrupt because they got a special deal from a political connection. If a company has a large investment to make, to move to a state, then I can see the same tax break as #3, about 50% for 5-10 years, but not local city, just state/fed level
8) Our tax code should be 1 page - Sales Tax, exclude Education, single Dwelling, Food, Medical, possibly retirement savings. All other items are taxed by the ONLY tax in the country.
What about the wasted money we spend on people not working, by choice?
What about the money we waste on educational programs that have no benefit?
What about retirement plans for Gov workers that exceed the dreams of non-gov workers?
What about taxing imports and not excluding parts/assemblies from that tax?
What about imposing a tax on companies that outsource outside the USA?
What about fining all politicians and gov workers unless the country/state has a balanced budget - and I'm not talking about giving it back to them once they come up with a budget....
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