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House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax

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Re: House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax

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For better and worse, this is pretty much what I'd expect. It's not a serious attempt to genuinely govern or otherwise make reasonable policy, it's sending up an ideological flag, and since the fundamental ideology is actually opposed to the idea of well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability...

Re: House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax

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Then what's the other taxes he wants to impose?

FTA!: “a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), eliminate the national income tax, and replace it with a national consumption tax.”

I guess they mean a (federal) sales tax because taxing at time of consumption is fairly hard to implement.

Re: House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax

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Would this eliminate the federal income tax leaving state and lower taxes? Or is it going to be nothing but one rather impressive vat?

> Would this eliminate the federal income tax leaving state and lower taxes?

The proposal “gets rid of the national personal and corporate income taxes and abolishes the IRS…as well as implements a national sales tax. Additionally, the bill gets rid of the death, gift, and payroll taxes.”

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