Onslaught, how will your flat tax the following: a stock dividend, a gift, a barter transaction (e.g.if I trade you a piece of property worth more than your piece of property and you give me cash to make up the difference), I can go on and on making up different examples. How about this one: I pay you as an employee in stock options? You cannot throw out a hundred years of jurisprudence, just because you dont know what the real issues are.

 

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" It might seem counterintuitive, but does a lower tax rate on investment create more investment? Or less?

If you desire to have X dollars in the future, you might invest less if you your return goes from 8% to 9% because of a tax cut. You invest less and spend more of your current income." -redkay

Why is this a bad thing? I end up with the same amount put away and have a couple extra bucks to spend which would further stimulate the economy.

Unless you're suggesting I can't be trusted to manage my own finances and will end up with less money saved because its cheaper to save?

 

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Too bad rich democrats and most of the ultra rich do tricks like Romney does to shelter his income from taxes.

 

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