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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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Post by wustangdan »

wwweston wrote: post #6

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...

I'm sorry I'm not following you. Are you saying that what the US has now is well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability?

Since they oppose this by trying to pull funding from them.

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

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Post by raincom »

mikewarot wrote: post #2

If the IRS were eliminated, how would they fund the defense budget that they cherish above all else?

As long as every other country on the earth wants to swap raw material and finished products with US dollars, they can print money to fund defense budget, social security, medicare, etc.

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

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Post by elashri »

Am the only one who feels like thia whole article is like ChatGPT repeating the definitions without giving out any details?. For example, instead of the other Rep who said exactly just a paraphrase of what the previous Rep said, they could explain what is FairTax is actually instead of just keep saying the samething.

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

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Post by lurquer »

Meaningless.

Senate wouldn’t back it and President wouldn’t sign it.

Telling how ignorant audiences are of civics that this stunt would merit an article. (Indeed, a good number of these same reps literally voted to fund the IRS at unprecedented levels just a few weeks ago.)

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

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Post by eklitzke »

I know that this isn't a serious piece of legislation, but just entertaining the idea of a consumption tax: wouldn't this hugely incentivize people to spend money overseas rather than domestically? Basically this would give people a huge discount if they take vacations abroad rather than domestically, to the point that it would make sense to do regular weekend trips to Mexico or Canada. In theory the government could try to tax consumption abroad, but in practice it seems like that would be very hard to enforce.

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

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Post by mrguyorama »

wustangdan wrote: post #11
wwweston wrote: post #6

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...

I'm sorry I'm not following you. Are you saying that what the US has now is well-functioning social institutions with mutual accountability? Since they oppose this by trying to pull funding from them.

Republicans have run on a platform of "Government is terrible at it's job" for 50 years, and every time they get elected they work really hard to prove it.
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