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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
Of course the so-called "Fair"tax does not have such exceptions.
The British government imposed sales taxes... without representation.
You are paying taxes to the government that you elect representatives to. It's absolutely ludicrous to compare the income tax to "taxation without representation".
Whether you pay income tax or sales tax has no bearing on how government uses taxes.
And your decision to pay taxes will not reflect your opinion on taxes, but your opinion on spending your own money.
I find this to be a very weak argument.
And you've yet to say what is unfair about land and natural resource taxes.
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No, I find your argument weak.
How is it fair to tax material items that someone owns? You do realize someone owns the lands they get the resources from, right? And how is it right to tax someone for their property, THEIR PRIVATE property.
The founders of the US would be ashamed of what we have done to the system when it comes to how the government earns its money and spends it...
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Originally Posted by JavaBlack
Whether you pay income tax or sales tax has no bearing on how government uses taxes.
And your decision to pay taxes will not reflect your opinion on taxes, but your opinion on spending your own money.
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Actually it does. Because when I go out and buy a new brand spanking grill(non-essential product), and pay the tax on it, I KNEW there was a tax on it and went and bought it. But when I have income removed from my pay check, then I have NO control how the tax money is collected.
See, dont you get it? I control the tax income for our government. Maybe this will give the government incentive to make changes on what they spend it for, eh?
We also need to change what we spend taxes on too, would of gotten to this point already, but haven had the chance yet in this thread.
Plus, today in this nation I actually have no control over what we spend in this nation. Fact is most of the politicians could give a hoot what we want.