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
I’ve always hated income tax whenever I hear how many times taxpayers money is mis-spent on shit that isn’t needed nor necessary. Like, our taxpayer money is going into the funding of bullets and bombs that are then used to kill innocent people whether globally or domestically.
And it isn’t like we have a choice to not file taxes. I mean, I’d love it if at least 50 million americans would stop filing taxes for a few years, maybe even one. What’s the IRS going to do? Fucking arrest those 50 million? Audit everyone? Ohhhhhhh…I’m so scared! Not like paying taxes in hasn’t done a damn thing when we need something done the most. The evidence is mountains high as to how mis-spent it is.