One of the more irritating themes of Republican legislators is that the government needs to be like a household. They note that citizens have to balance their household budgets, so why shouldn’t the government?
Except that citizens don’t. Almost every home buyer in America takes out a mortgage. Citizens spread out expenses with credit cards, they buy cars with payments, they take out home improvement loans, they borrow from their brothers-in-law. One time I took out a loan to pay for dental work.
Actually, I’ll probably have to do that again. Every time I read of the stupid and irresponsible Republican proposals I grind my teeth. They’ll soon be little nubs.
I'll have to take a loan to pay my taxes. If these corporations paid their fair share maybe the rest of us would pay less. If corporations that do business in Pennsylvania shared the sacrifice and paid a fair share we could employee more teachers or at least not lay so many off. Education is our future until it comes time to fund it.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to solve the problem is to scrap the present tax method and create a flat tax. Everyone should pay taxes. No exceptions.
ReplyDeleteUnder $10K= No tax
10-20K = __%
20-50K = __%
50-100K= __%
100K + = __%
People that are retired also would pay the minimum of __%.
Just an idea.