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LETTERS.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(Letter to the Editor)
Democrats Want It All
Regarding "No Deal" (Editorial, Wednesday): Democratic Sen. Harry Reid's threat to filibuster judicial nominees is the same as stopping democracy. This only helps to prove my theory about the Democratic Party. It doesn't want democracy. It wants totalitarian rule -- its totalitarian rule.
Rosalyn Becker, Fort Myers, Fla.
Congress' Greatest Act
"A Family Focus Gives The Left Edge On Taxes" (On The Left, Tuesday) by Paul Weinstein Jr. is so full of errors, faulty thinking and faulty reasoning that I feel compelled to put the record straight. I think Weinstein counted on people reading his article without really thinking about it and without reasoning it out.
He says those making $50,000 a year and those making $500,000 a year pay the same taxes under the consumption tax. Wrong. Under such a tax, which is not a graduated tax, the more you earn, the more you spend and the more taxes you pay. Example:
Last year Mr. Extravagant, Mr. Average and Mr. Tightwad watched the Super Bowl.
- EDITORIAL / Adjust consumption tax, not income tax.
- Magazine article from: Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri August 7, 2006 700+ words
...EDITORIAL / Adjust consumption tax, not income tax Yomiuri There...taxes." The consumption tax has been regarded...regressiveness through income tax hikes. His...the maximum income tax rate. The...nature of the consumption tax. There is...
- The superiority of an ideal consumption tax over an ideal income tax.
- Magazine article from: Stanford Law Review Bankman, Joseph Weisbach, David A. March 1, 2006 700+ words
...choice between an income tax and a consumption tax. The topic has been...choice between an income tax and a consumption tax, focusing on an argument...implications for the income tax versus consumption tax debate. In addition...
- Biz Lobby Prefers Consumption Tax Hike to Income Tax Rise.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 13, 2004 700+ words
...revenue by raising the consumption tax rate rather than income tax rates. A consumption tax hike has less harmful...that an increase in the consumption tax had only a temporarily...growth in the countries. Income tax rises, on the other...
- The international implications of consumption tax proposals.(Symposium on...
- Magazine article from: National Tax Journal Grubert, Harry Newlon, T. Scott December 1, 1995 700+ words
...the U.S. income tax system with a consumption tax. This paper...the consumed income tax, or other consumption tax variants, where...eliminating the income tax aside, when...principle consumption tax is imposed...
- Life under a personal consumption tax: some thoughts on working, saving and...
- Magazine article from: National Tax Journal Ginsburg, Martin D. December 1, 1995 700+ words
...would do away with both the individual and the corporate income tax, and AMT as well, substituting at the individual level a broad-based, graduated (three rates) personal consumption tax - unlimited deduction for net new savings - and at the...
- National Consumption Tax Good Idea, Fed Chief Says; But Transition...
- Magazine article from: Investor's Business Daily March 4, 2005 700+ words
...because a consumption tax is likely to encourage...challenging." Today's income tax is mixed, offering...investment. A consumption tax would tax only...putting elements of a consumption tax into the income tax structure," Entin...
- Tax system moving toward flat or consumption tax.
- Newspaper article from: The Kiplinger Tax Letter January 28, 2005 700+ words
...of a flat tax... Or a consumption tax...as the debate over...much the same effect as a consumption tax. Most of the income taxed...turn the tax code into a consumption tax: Slash marginal income tax rates until there's just...
- Implementing a progressive consumption tax: advantages of adopting the VAT...
- Magazine article from: National Tax Journal Grinberg, Itai December 1, 2006 700+ words
...proposals would use a consumption tax to replace the income tax, while others would reduce income tax rates and raise the income threshold for income tax liability. Numerous progressive consumption tax proposals have received...
- The aches and pains of transition to a consumption tax: can we get there from...
- Magazine article from: Virginia Tax Review Goldberg, Daniel S. January 1, 2007 700+ words
...from the current income tax to a consumption tax. (1) Even if...agreement that a consumption tax was superior to an income tax, however, there...transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The...
- Bush's tax proposals shift toward a consumption tax.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: The Kiplinger Tax Letter February 14, 2003 700+ words
...wage income but exempts savings resembles a consumption tax, even though the income tax shell remains. While not all investment income...would make the current income tax more like a consumption tax. Such a switch won't happen quickly. Lawmakers...