Tax discussion thread (U.S. focused)

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Final-Fan said:

That's an interesting idea -- I've heard other ideas regarding a national sales tax but this sounds different.  But all evidence shows that tax evasion becomes a major problem with high retail sales taxes. 

Anyway, it could be argued that you are simply selling your labor (the commodity you speak of) on a contractual basis.  So actually taxes on wages are a sort of sales tax! 

If there were no income tax, a lot businesses would die. Why hire services from another company and pay taxes when you can just hire your own workers?