We’re at a point where we would be better off as a nation paying a bit more in taxes

And we should have Corporations pay "a little" more in taxes and drop more regulations on them so they totally quit hiring people and or just take off to Ireland or Switzerland.

 

Except for the fact that there's a large contingent of people who aren't even close to being ready to accept government control over things like healthcare, myself included. I voted against it fully and think it's not right that so few people in the houses actually read the bill. Unfortunately, it's going to take people losing money and the ACA not to come close on delivering what it said it was going to do for people to wake up about it.

 

I have a better idea. How about we tax business and individuals less, so they have more control over their money and what they do with it. Instead of trying to have a government centered society, let's have a people centered society where freedom in the operating principle of the whole society. Sounds good to me.

 

I have been an advocate of a flat tax since the Steve Forbes days. There is simply no incentive to achieve anymore in this country. Many of our true entrepeneurs have simply given up. They now make enough to live comfortably as they realize there are decreasing benefits to achieve any further.

Even better than flat-rate taxes would be a national sales tax. Whoever consumes the most, pays the most. Nothing could be more fair than that. If you can afford a $1,000 car, you pay a sales tax on $1,000. If you can afford a $100,000 car, you pay a sales tax on $100,000. Consumption taxes and use taxes have always been the most fair.

We simply have things backwards with our graduated scale income taxes. The people who are producing the most and creating the most jobs are the ones you want to keep the most of their money so they can do the most good with it. The flawed premise is that government can decide how to use the money better than the proven successes who made it in the first place.