Thread: I got an idea...

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

I have a simpler idea, how about raise the tax exempt minimum income from where it is now, a.k.a. "the poverty level" to the level of either a single person's reasonable living wage or a family wage for married folks?
Let's say that $50k per year is the average living wage for a family, if you are filing as a married couple and you make less than that, then you don't pay taxes.
FYI, I say this as a single guy making about $40k, which is well above the average cost of living for a single guy in my area.

You are getting close to resonable...
first exempt the first 52k a year from each WAGE earner. no earned income credits no penalties/rewards for lifestyle choices (single, married civil union, kids.... no extra deductions.)

roll back the Johnson era "great society programs", eliminate the Roosevelt era social net and tax everybody 20% on every cent above the 52K threshold.

return to the states the social welfare programs, the education system, the endowment for the arts and allow each state to decide how they want to raise the money to pay for theses things and how they are administered.

Any department or program that is not specifically defined in the US constitution needs to be eliminated.... thus the federal government will not need all that much money, the states will need more but there will be one fewer layer of bureaucratic stupidity to pay so all the programs will cost less.

Everybody saves money we are all happier. I have nave seen the reason why one person wages is taxed at 6% or less and another's is taxed at 44% the people paying the higher amounts do not get special money or privliges... why should they be taxed differently?


alternately, we could simply tax the poor so much they get better jobs to pay their tax bill and then are not longer poor!

As to deficit spending ban it. the government should not be allowed to spend money that will never exist in the tax coffer... as for the debt we have now ...shake down the civil service union pension program, the members of the house and senate and the pres (including all past holders of the jobs) for every cent they have and make a payment on it once they do their part then maybe the people should be asked... the other alternative it to simply declared all the T-bills and FDR notes null and void and start all over!

one last think in this rant... every city,county,state and federal job should start at minimum wage and top out at 52K if people want more than than that they should get a job in the private sector.