Originally posted by Soothfast"What we need is a more progressive tax scheme, such as was in place in Eisenhower's day, with fewer loopholes and crazy deductions and credits."
Oh, and what subversive things are you worried about having on your tax return? You should always pay the call girl with cold hard cash, and never try to deduct the transaction as a business expense!
What we need is a more progressive tax scheme, such as was in place in Eisenhower's day, with fewer loopholes and crazy deductions and credits. There are ...[text shortened]... ing to a new job -- and such deductions open up huge loopholes and ways for frauds to make hay.
Why? Don't we spend enough on dependency rackets? Is the solution to the nations problems really less transparency, more jealousy of success, and more mooching at the public trough, by every class of Americans?
What are you afraid of? People actually knowing that there isn't a free lunch? That everyone share in paying for programs, instead of lobbying to be recipients?