Do you think it would work to tax all objects that we over use at 10% and use this tax to help health care,education ect.?
overuse is defined by we use it to the extend that it's use makes us weaker, less intelligent, disconnected, sicker, ect...
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Great that's what we need at a time like this more consumer tax.
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This would ultimately be a reversed graduated tax, tougher on the poor than the rich. Specifically, a poor family who live paycheck to paycheck with no savings would be taxed at 10% because the consume all of their income, where a wealthy family consume a small portion of their income (say 25%) and are taxed on what they consume would only be paying 2.5% in taxes. This was Steve Forbe's tax plan in the 90's. Ironically he's a millionaire.
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if we wanted to expand both slavery and government control, then yes, it would work...
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I don't believe our government would be capable of accurately assessing what makes us weaker in the first place. Nor would they be able to resist special interest groups lobbying to get and keep their 'thing' off of the harmful list, and finally much of the money they got for health care, education, etc, would be bled off to special interests or obese and sclerotic bureaucracies that ate ever larger percentages of the money they purported to give out.
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im assuming you're talking about the fat tax, and no i dont think its a good idea
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If everything and I do mean everything but food, medical care, day care amd pharmaceuticals were taxed at 10% the government would only need to collect taxes for a few months each year. This list could go on for ever. For every mechanical thing there is spare parts maintainence and repair maufacture of the spare parts. Think of it. The government and health care could be funded completely. Clothes Tools machinery spare parts to the machinery repairs to the machinery maintainence to the machinery boats spare parts for the boats repairs to the boats maintainence to the boats fuel houses electricity phones cable storage air planes air travel warehousing automobiles dry cleaning But I doubt it's gonna' happen.
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