No VAT for the US please!

http://blogs.reuters.com/commentaries/2009/09/08/why-the-us-needs-a-value-added-tax/?p=3634?tempedition=debatehub

We already got sales taxes..

What we need is a flat tax, everyone has to pay the same sum for a year's citizenship. It will be humane because those who can't pay will have an all expenses paid repatriation.

>>1
And we're not raising enough money. Even if health care were magically fixed today, there would still be massive budget shortfalls in things like education and science research. What do you propose to do about it?

>>2
LOL no. Surely you're trolling. No country on Earth currently has a successful, truly flat tax system. It is a complete logical failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax

>>3
I'm just throwing it out there. Rich people from other countries would move to the country importing everything they need to their corporate headquarters and condominiums, at the same time employers would have to increase wages so workers can pay for their citizenship so in the end, as long as you work, it's a pretty equal system. I admit this is a bit mercantilist but it's not the tax haven's fault that other countries can't compete.

Another idea would be for people to pay for their services from the government. For instance clean apartment complexes with their own security systems would pay less tax than crime ridden ghettos because they are less dependant on police protection, poor people would have an incentive to move to areas where they can be controlled more easily and won't turn to drugs or crime. If you live out in the countryside and grow your own food you could be paying virtually no tax except for a token amount for national defense. Whereas if you own 51% of a major energy corporation and several large homes across the country you will have to pay a fuckton of tax for all the state services you need to regulate it aswell as keep order.

>>4

Yeah, and I think people with bad criminal records should pay a higher tax rate..  basically paying for your stay in jail.  If you rarely or never get in trouble with the law, u deserve to pay less taxes.

>>5
And obviously, "u" deserve to pay less taxes, because "u" didn't learn a damn thing in school, saving your teachers time and effort.

>>5
Or people in jail should have to work like everyone else. There is a high demand for cheap sweatshop labor.
>>6
Fixate on irrelevant details more.

>>7

ya hes rite spellign dunt matter now listen to mah opinionz on taxes lol rofl wtf <33

But srsly, make prisoners work.

>>8
That's just excessive. One "u" doesn't exactly warrant your level of butthurt.
>>9
Yes, srsly, cells should just be concrete cubes, 1 man per cell with just a latrine and a tap and a mattress, that's where they eat. If they start throwing faeces at prison officers or whatever just flog them, no need for expensive psychiatric treatment. No visitors, gangs get split up, prisoners will get their hour of daylight and chance to exercise but they aren't allowed to make physical contact with one another. No cable, no expensive gym equipment, none of that shit.