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Ned's avatar

Idiot tax. Made me laugh.

JFKs Investment tax credit of 1962? Hey, I'm a dissident artist who watches ink & paint dry.... I know nothing of this detail. I must read my Thomas Sowell Basic Economics... have started.

P.S. I just misspelt artist as ratist & liked it!

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Bob - Enough's avatar

I am not saying I agree with withholding all tax, because how woud we then get our roads, street lamps, libraries, sports centres, swimming baths etc , whatever... HOWEVER ...

IF A GOVERNMENT IN ONE YEAR - can spend almost a trillion pounds, made up fiat currency... on some utter shite like the pandemic, hmmm... why do they need our taxes ?.

Taxing us for BS is non-sensical and MUST be illegal - why for instance do my taxes going on immigrants, foreign aid and wars ?. I WAS NOT ASKED - so F'em.

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Ned's avatar

How could we finance 'public services'?

Ask Ron Paul I guess. He was up for 0% income tax. I guess there are other exchange taxes e.g. VAT and private funding.

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Charles leone's avatar

Great idea! And how about an "idiot tax" of 1-2 percent on financial transactions of the billionaire class of Wall Street speculators, most of whom have dedicated their lives to avoid paying taxes to attain their status. In addition, to rebuild our real physical economy how about JFKs Investment tax credit of 1962?

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