by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on February 19th, 2009

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Poll: New Yorkers say raise sales tax, not income tax. Nobody EVER wants a new tax, but if you had to have one or the other, which would you choose? See LINK:

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by Baccduckus is a Carbonproduct on February 19th, 2009
Sales tax. Much easier to enforce properly (and cheaper to enforce). As long as there's a provision allowing unprepared food items to be free of tax you have a much more efficient and reliable system that cannot be twisted by lobbying groups or wealthy to their advantage.

Income taxes get so convoluted that anyone who can afford to hire a CPA will increase their take home more than double the upfront cost of that professional. But nothing can help them at the checkout line.
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- I really like that unprepared food is exempt. Same in Massachusetts. That helps a lot in keeping the sales tax from unduly punishing the poor.
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- Precisely.
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by Ripple is back on February 19th, 2009
This New York state citizen says NO to anymore taxes in our state.We pay way to much to Albany already and it is wasted.Sorry to vent Jim but this state is tax happy.
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- Ha! I don't know of anybody who is in a rush to pay more taxes. Trouble is, we all want all the government services to go right on unabated. There's always howls when cuts are made in services.
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  by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on February 19th, 2009
- This state is in turmoil over that very thing right now!
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- I know polls keep swearing to us they can cut taxes and balance the budget through efficiency. Sounds great, but I have never seen it work once in 60 plus years of watching.
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  by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on February 19th, 2009
- You are correct.I think things are going to get much worse before it gets better.
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by celer09 on February 19th, 2009
sales tax because it applies to everyone proportionally to how often you spend money. that's why some candidates had ideas of a national sales tax that would replace income tax altogether
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- I like how simple a sales tax is. But the problem with a sales tax is it is incredibly regressive. A person making $20,000 a year has to spend every penny of that to live, and pays the tax on every dollar earned. Someone making $2 billion a year needs to spend just a tiny fraction of their earnings. They can use all the rest to constantly buy up more and more of the means of production of wealth. So falt tax and sales tax schemes generally either produce banana republics a=or are used where the state resports to massive social welfare programs to try to life an impoverished 99% up out of poverty. I don't cherish either of those scenarios, and unfortunately there is no other way with a flat tax or sales tax system.
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