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Taxpayers’ Plight Highlighted in Rescue Coverage
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by BMCWrites | July 17, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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Throughout the morning, Fox News Channel — and at least one Minnesota affiliate — featured coverage of workers struggling to rescue a worker trapped by a cave-in at an Eden Prairie, Minn., construction site. After watching several updates, I began to see Fox’s video portrait of the tension-filled events as offering an object lesson in describing the plight of American taxpayers:
- The role of the overburdened taxpayer was played by the man trapped beneath the soil;
- The role of the IRS tax code was played by the soil; and
- The role of the army of accountants and attorneys one must hire when faced with a tax audit was played by rescuers.
Sadly, too few lawmakers realize that if a flat tax or national sales tax were implemented, we could both relieve taxpayers from the incredible pressures placed upon them by the current tax code and eliminate our need to maintain an army of rescuers whose primary job is to rescue those same people from unwanted and unnecessary emergencies.
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at 18:42 on July 17th, 2008
Yeah, but flat taxers have a problem. They are willing to distinguish between survival dollars and discretionary income. All flat tax plans have a low wage cap, meaning if you are in poverty then you don't pay. But isn't the flat tax fair to all? How could a poor person be cheated? Well if you take somebody making 100,000 a year and take 10%, that leaves them with 90K, still a good chunk. But take somebody making 10,000 a year and take 10%, that leaves them with 9K, meaning they have to cut a few meals out or turn off the heat in the winter. Now, a wealthy person, generally speaking, owns more or larger property, uses infrastructure and utility in greater amounts, they have greater access to public officials, and the military defends that portion or proportion of their assets, which is greater than a poor or middle wage earner. Which means they should naturally pay more, which is the progressive tax. Well, if our tax policies are so bad why don't they just move somewhere else? Well, because we have among the lowest tax rates in among industrialized nations, and therefore, they get a better deal.
Now, it is true that taxpayer dollars have been wasted very poorly in the past few years. But look who controlled congress for 12 years, and look who increased the national debt ceiling six times.......conservatives. Not the tax and spend Dems, but the spend and spend and spend neo-Cons.