I don’t get this, the only argument is the like Austrian school taxation is theft argument but in that case all the taxes that income tax haters like are also just as much theft.
You see a new article every week about why we need to get rid of income tax and replace it with some asinine “progressive consumption tax” that allows for poor people to write some stuff off but not other stuff its a mess.
every inane over complicated solution always runs into either not making enough, being to expensive to enforce and calculate or being regressive
even in Europe which comes the closest to this with the use of vats but income tax is still their main cash cow
this is a solution in search of a problem income tax works, economist agree when done right (as in you don’t raise income tax 50% in a day)it has the least distortion, it’s easy to collect and raises massive revenue
it does not all go to the military,
interest on debt is the highest expense but the second highest is social security followed by military
I hate social security personally the significant amount of the collectors have taken out more then they put in and I woudl prefer a more traditiona l welfare system
Conservatives like social security because it is welfare that pretends to be earned
Conservatives don’t like social security they want to get rid of it or cut it