It's not about loopholes. Instead it is about why there is presently a PERSONAL federal income tax. Simply eliminate the federal personal income tax. The employer payroll tax withholding would then drop, so people working would effectively get a raise.
The fed budget was able to pay for two decades of destructing Afghanistan, so the feds will be ok.
I want all taxes cut. I want Bezos to pay less, and I hate Amazon.
Most taxes are just going to wind up in the pockets of some bureaucrat.
Maybe our government would just spend less. Governments waste money. I don’t care what it is for, if it is a tax increase and I can vote against it I will.
The US federal government is just the largest corporation, with 50 layers of middle management.
I’ll donate to the library, and the parks fund though. Gas taxes also aren’t the worse if they’re only used for transportation purposes. Property taxes should only be used for police and fire departments, and maybe power grid work if you’re on the grid.
Governments waste money on things which “we” do not agree.
Noticeably absent from your list is education, which I am not implying is intentional nor do I wish to say you are against funding it.
If the function of government is to help run a safe orderly society, not funding that seems to be a mistake. Now we’re adding to the list, and there is of course defense, and oh, the FAA as airplanes crashing is a bad idea. And don’t forget the SEC, FDIC, have to protect the financial sector.
FAA allowed Boeing to avoid getting a new type certification for 737MAX (large fans relocated on wing mounts to avoid scrapping runway) and what would have been costly pilot training for the new type certification. Fail, twice.
UL is not government and reviews consumer electrical product safety, so safety can be done without government.
Hey but our tax dollars help pay for all the anti cigarette campaigns!
And then some capitalist came up with vaping, so people wouldn’t reek, and did more for preventing cancer in smokers than the government ever had.
No government budgets must justify themselves, and all money must be spent to justify getting more.
Money is power. Billionaires are powerful, not just because they have so much wealth in their name, but they generally control even more wealth via board positions. Well a US senator, controls even more wealth, now that our government is so large. Bernie Sanders hates billionaires because they still maintain a lot of power, and he hates competition.
Actually, a lot of the anti-smoking campaigns are paid for by money from the big tobacco settlements.
And smoking rates have fallen precipitously since their height in the past. Long before e-cigs became a thing. It would be hard to pin down the actual cause of the fall, but the rise of e-cigs could only be a small and recent factor.
The frustrating part is vaping is an opportunity to actually encourage those who smoke cigarettes to do something far less bad for them. But instead all of those who have made a career on cessation, would be out of work.
So our governors ban vaping and people and make it actively harder to get.
London public health was actually smart and encouraged those who smoke to switch to vaping, and encouraged those who do not to not start vaping, still bad for you, but cigarettes are about 10 times worse, though less enjoyable than a cigarette.
I don't think any politician or really very many people at all have really built a career on cessation. The reason they are trying to ban vaping is because the health effects are still not well understood.
There is also the fact that many people who never smoked are getting into vaping and becoming addicted to the nicotine all the same. Not as bad as cigarettes, but not a healthy habit either.
Education was very intentional. When I say I vote against all taxes, this is the only one I have a choice and *always* will vote against.
Government schools are completely untrustworthy. There are many good teachers at them, but they’re just indoctrination centers, for progressive communist bull crap. Hey our local middle school is having the local drag club show up! The kids can’t read, but at least the boys now know it is ok to wear a dress and makeup. And I don’t give a crap if a boy wears a dress.
If there were complete choice as to how to spend that money, and we could fire the shit teachers, pretty much if the local public school was simply funded by the local neighborhood, I’d be ok with that.
The leftist dogma is so ingrained into our culture, even the right wingers, accept so many of their presuppositions. College education, is crap here. And people don’t actually learn how to think, but what to think.
A liberal arts education was a thing once pursued for the sake of education, and now at our universities, it is just another way to make sure you believe the right narrative.
Like we literally have words like “birthing person”, and “chest feeding”instead of “mom” and “breast feeding”, and everyone is so blind they can’t see how stupid that is. Yes a trans man can have a baby and breast feed it, and somehow that means we should stop using common sense. Clown world.
Clearly you know nothing of Afghanistan, our mission there, and what we did asides from blow up terrorists. We built roads, energy and data infrastructure, government buildings, and trained countless Afghans on everything from construction to IT to self-defense.
There was certainly mission creep and mistakes were certainly made, there is no arguing that.
Nevertheless, we invested more money into building Afghanistan than we did dropping bombs on caves and desert compounds.
Then the Biden administration handed it all to the Taliban, who sold some of it to China.
Are you still drinking the Kool aid? Officers tend to have an existential crisis whenever their missions don't work out.
Afghanistan has rotten substrate - with all of its absurd "green on blue" attacks, the panicky morale of its military, the corruption and kickbacks, its lack of education and religious fundamentalism, it's misogyny and pederasty, and it's general incompetence. They are hopeless but we couldn't let go. We had 20 years of Afghanistan showing its worth - and it was not $2T.
Look at Ukraine and how effective their citizenry is when they are given NATO training and equipment. When Russia invaded did you see Ukrainian men fleeing and falling off of airplane landing gear? Ukraine is worth $2T and 20 years.
Correct but irrelevant. I was there and did all that, and most of the people with me would have agreed with the expressed sentiment as it relates to taxes.
“Invested” or “paid contractors exorbitant amounts” to do those things the American public (average person not corporate imperial America) would see no benefit from?
Trump had a "credible deterrent" that was going to magically maintain order after we left. Obviously nothing Biden could have been privy to despite leading the same military and nation.
It's not about loopholes. Instead it is about why there is presently a PERSONAL federal income tax. Simply eliminate the federal personal income tax. The employer payroll tax withholding would then drop, so people working would effectively get a raise.
The fed budget was able to pay for two decades of destructing Afghanistan, so the feds will be ok.