Re: [GBlist] Taxing

[Allan Gratia <dragnet@indian-creek.net>]

Actually, the number being tossed about is around 17%.  But consider that all
other taxes would go by the wayside, including income and property taxes,
corporate and franchise, and payroll.  The resulting savings on goods and
services including manufacturing costs would, by all accounts, be
significant.  This would perhaps make us more competitive in the world market
as well.

Alan Courtright wrote:

> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Ron Byrd wrote:
>
> > consumption tax
> >
> > Ray Zorz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > That's nice. How do you pay for roads, schools, police, fire, etc?
>
> A consumption tax is a variant of a sales tax.  Sales taxes would have to
> be scaringly high to take in enough income to get near replacing what the
> income tax takes in (though the expenses would be far lower).  A
> transactions tax, OTOH, might well take in enough to run the whole show at
> a rate of a mere 1% (though nobody so far has been willing to try to
> determine just what rate would be needed, mostly because nobody has yet
> (in this country, at least) taken a transactions tax seriously.
>
>                          -|//*Alan Courtright*\\|=
>                                 Poulsbo, WA
>                              acourtri@krl.org
>
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