The Next President Of The United States Is Donald J Trump

[Nuvendil]

hershel_layton said:

Nuvendil said:

I suppose one can call it a dream.  I would not.  If nothing else, the leftist tax proposals are absurd.  Don't necessarily think that the Right has put forth the best proposals either, but the idea of drasitcally raising the corporate tax rate and keeping the international tax rate on top of that is just absurd when you consider we already have the highest corporate tax rate of any developed country and are the only developed modern country who has an international tax system.  And further expanding entitlements is also something I consider utter madness when we can't afford the programs we already have in place.

I wonder why it's so hard to make taxes fairly for everyone- as you get a bigger salary you pay more taxes. it shouldn't be so hard.

 

We should also close loop holes for taxes. it's disgusting how apple and other corporations have billions of avoided taxes

But percentages mean that you already *pay more*.  And btw, the top tier individual tax rate is far higher than the average American's.  As for loopholes, some are intentionally put in to encourage recovery from bad times - carry forward losses being the main one - while others are indeed unfortunate failures to adapt.  I would fix the former, certainly.  But the billions that companies never move into the country comes down to the international tax rate.  We are the only developed country that taxes you just for bringing the money into the country so why would any company do that if they don't have to?  Honestly, the class warfare narrative is so tired and a lot of it is smoke and mirrors.  The reality is, the overwhelming majority of federal income taxes come from the top tier people that leftists are determined to say don't pay their "fair share".