The first 9 pages of the Internal Revenue Code define income; the remaining 1,100 pages spin the web of exceptions and preferences.
When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.
I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
There should be a 100% income tax in incomes above the amount needed to supply all the comforts and true refinements of life.
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
Corporations must pay tax.
If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
Taxes are nice in Florida.
A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away
It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.
