Comments by "Michael Smith" (@MichaelSmith-fj7di) on "Republican Says Taxation is Theft. Her Salary is Paid by Taxes" video.

  1. The GOP’s plan of getting rid of income taxes and only funding the government via sales taxes is terrible. Such taxes are highly regressive and to get the amount of money needed, grocery and other bills will go way up.
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  2.  @ianmuir3640  The economy would also suffer massively. If people had to pay a 30-40% sales tax, they’d buy a lot less.
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  3.  @aheroictaxidriver3180  Such proposals would also apply to necessary items such as groceries. That would punish the poor.
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  4. That was a founding principle of this country, yet we literally practice that for residents of Washington, DC.
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  5. The 16th Amendment also grants the government power to collect income taxes.
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  6. One of their bills wants to abolish income taxes and replace it with a national sales tax. I’m highly against that because such a tax is extremely regressive and bills for things like groceries would go way up.
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  7. The United States did for a few years, but it ended in utter disaster.
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