| Eomund said: I know that I give 15% of my total income PRETAX (gross income) to a charity. I know there isn't much of a tax incentive for me to give that much. I also know that America is the most generous nation in the world because the people are the most generous. Look at the terrible disasters around the country this past year. People are very generous and are always ready to lend a helping hand. We saw this even during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (PLEASE DO NOT GO ON A RABBIT TRAIL ABOUT WHOSE FAULT THAT WAS...) |
I can only imagine yoyu think America is the most generous nation in the world because that is the country you live in. Every once in a while a disaster can convince a majority of people to donate money, however this is a very rare case. More often then not this money goes to wherever and is eaten up by processing costs etc, to the point of where it's not even useful really outside of bigger donations. Even private charities are burdened by bueracracy.
Without being able to write it off, corporations would not give to charity, or at the very least would give much less. They have little reason to other then the good PR. Corporations are run to generate profits.
Also, i object to the name "Fair Tax" in general since...
1) Everyone has a different definition of fair.
2) Income even in a purely captialistic let the market decide factor is unfair because of outside circumstances. Therefore ANY tax even one based on consumption is unfair.
Reasons for this are
A) Where people are born. Identical twins seperated at birth one living with a rich man, the other with a poor man likely will not end up in the same pay grade. An equal tax is unfair, because their incomes are unfair.
B) How people are born. Nobody chooses to be born stupid, yet some people no matter how much effort they put towards it just can't be successful. Given the choice i'm sure everyone would wish to be born a genius. However we live in the universe of the all mightly bell curve.
C) Numerous other factors that occur with no fault of the persons own that can effect both positivly and negativly ones income and career path independent of how much effort one actually puts forth.
A Fair tax would never truely be fair unless we were like some genetically altered babies taken away from their parents at birth to be raised like some sort of spartan warriors sent out on our 21st birthdays all of us with an equal amount of money... and who would want to live like that. (Not to mention enviromental and happenstance situations would likely STILL alter things.)
or as the short version.
Nothing in life is fair, nor will anything in life be fair. When people claim something is fair, it likely means that it is most preferencial to them and their viewpoints, and not fair on a universal whole.
Also, i don't understand why sales tax wouldn't be put on "used" items. I mean it will anyway, as whenever someone sells something they bought "new" they would put a portion of this tax on anyway to recoup there losses.
If a buy something for 77 dollars today, and sell it for 30. I'm going to sell it for more then 30 if i have to pay 100 for it. Even more so if i'm a middle man company.
Which, if i've got the definition of "new" correct are the people who will be paying a lot of these taxes. People in the supply distribution chain.
