Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

The amount of lost time and productivity due to dealing with income taxes nationwide is insanely high.

The number of accountants, lawyers, and auditors that work full time on it, plus the percent of time that small business owners and individual taxpayers have to dedicate to it each year, costs an uncountable total number of lost hours per year. And just as bad, it requires a ubiquitous massive surveillance apparatus on all sorts of income to enforce itself.

No taxes are enjoyable, but income taxes are really the most counter-productive and onerous ones. Taxes on properties, imports, and retail sales have so much of a lighter touch to track and collect than income taxes.
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Jim C 1y ago

I prefer sales taxes (b2b and b2c) to income and asset taxes. A lot easier IMO.

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American Patriot 1y ago

I’d be begrudgingly ok with the taxes at the founding of the country, but only if they, like at the founding of the country until 1930, have no police powers.

Federal Taxes

1. **Tariffs and Customs Duties**:

- The main source of federal revenue.

- Applied to imported goods, such as textiles, sugar, and spirits.

2. **Excise Taxes**:

- Imposed on domestically produced goods.

- Key items taxed included whiskey, tobacco, sugar, carriages, and refined sugar.

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Jim C 1y ago

Without police powers you will have a lot of people evading / not paying the taxes. Is your idea that the government set the taxes to a level where it can get by from those that pay? If it’s voluntary why not just have a system where the government has to convince people to donate what it says it needs and set aside the complexity and economic distortions and likely corruption of all the various taxes on different things?