If I had my way we'd only have only one tax, a flat rate straight percentage personal income tax and end all other taxes period. All forms of income, no exceptions, no write offs etc. etc. etc. As soon as you take it home or put it in your bank, you pay the tax. That way they couldn't hide and obscure how much we're actually paying by chipping away at us the way they do. I would not tax business at all because that's passed along to us when we buy something and we wind up paying it anyway, then they have gall to tax us again with sales tax. I'd rather the businesses keep the money to create jobs then the wages they pay out to the employees as income can be taxed. Just one bite at the apple and no more.
The second key part of the plan is that at the end of the year everyone sits down and they earmark how the tax dollars they paid in are spent themselves i.e. take the checkbook away from the politicians. That also makes it more fair for those who pay in more. They more you pay, the more you have to say. If you pay in nothing then you have nothing to say about how the money from others is spent. I know it's simple, it's so simple in fact that it might just work. At least it has a chance of working better than the insane system we have today. If I want to spend my tax money on things like defence and good roads then that's my business. If you want to waste your's on deadbeats, the sex life of fruit flies or how thick ketchup is, then that's your business. Pretty soon I think we'd find out where the bear craps in the buckwheat and most if not all of the waste would stop dead in it's tracks.
