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gravis7777 · 2018-06-07 17:28:16+00:00

Great idea - more taxes...

badrabbit | karma 7868 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2024-02-21 21:18:45

Yeah the idea is to have them pay more with that dedicated tax and pay less elsewhere.

djrobstep | karma 855 | avg karma 1.19 · | 2022-03-06 04:56:49

Sounds great - higher taxes are good.

maym86 | karma 1351 | avg karma 3.49 · | 2018-08-04 01:08:24+00:00

Right, other taxes could be better implemented too.

moultano | karma 10384 | avg karma 5.57 · | 2010-11-15 04:58:14+00:00

This is definitely the most interesting proposal to revamp the tax system that I've heard. Thanks for sharing.

bpye | karma 1802 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2022-05-27 14:35:28

Make the tax higher then.

justincormack | karma 11120 | avg karma 2.4 · | 2014-12-24 17:21:03+00:00

Most suggestions involve increased taxes.

ams6110 | karma 28057 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2010-05-07 15:53:09+00:00

Another proposal to try to change people's behavior through the tax code.

8note | karma 4988 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2020-08-11 21:52:24+00:00

I don't think that does what you want it to.

Make taxes burdensome, and you create a market for tax filers who make them easy for you. All youve done is make taxes more expensive then, without getting better government services.

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Adlai | karma 198 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2014-12-28 11:36:02

As much as I like this idea, there's an equally strong incentive, for those who can afford to do so, to engage in "tax optimization".

sirseal | karma 98 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2014-09-10 22:05:25+00:00

And then let's add some taxes to make this proposal even worse!

juliantejera | karma 1 | avg karma 0.2 · | 2017-03-08 13:12:39

Great, just charge the people more taxes. Terrible idea.

google234123 | karma 1396 | avg karma 1.19 · | 2024-01-02 12:51:21

Just increase tax a bit more to make up for it :)

trasz | karma 2810 | avg karma 0.93 · | 2022-06-23 03:35:58

Not a bad idea if followed by much increased taxation to be able to pay people.

rorykoehler | karma 5431 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2017-02-26 16:45:39

My idea is more an incentive to get the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes so we can find initiatives like you suggest.

vincent-toups | karma 691 | avg karma 3.17 · | 2019-10-02 13:38:01

A cool idea would be to increase taxes on the very wealthy and on non-cooperatively owned businesses and use that largess to fund and tax-incentivize cooperatively owned businesses.

thrower123 | karma 4136 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2019-11-08 08:13:18

Let's tax the people who pay all the taxes even more...

The worst problem with these tax proposals is that they won't even raise half as much revenue as they need for the programs they are supposed to fund.

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tomjen3 | karma 9638 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2019-03-14 16:02:45+00:00

Add a new tax, only on payment from city retirements...

rayhano | karma 810 | avg karma 2.32 · | 2012-09-01 17:05:54

So currently £340bn of tax is taken from people. At the moment it is all in the form of income taxes.

With my proposal, we allow people to keep vastly more income (and therefore spend more).

The intention is:

Low-middle class pay much less tax

Upper middle class pay about the same

HNWI pay more (which is universally accepted as more fair, but never instigated with effective policy)

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exabrial | karma 16024 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2021-01-17 14:59:40+00:00

Here's a really interesting proposal... instead of paying in 25k, wasting 20k, then paying out 2k, why not just not have people pay so much tax up front?