I don’t get this, the only argument is the like Austrian school taxation is theft argument but in that case all the taxes that income tax haters like are also just as much theft.
You see a new article every week about why we need to get rid of income tax and replace it with some asinine “progressive consumption tax” that allows for poor people to write some stuff off but not other stuff its a mess.
every inane over complicated solution always runs into either not making enough, being to expensive to enforce and calculate or being regressive
even in Europe which comes the closest to this with the use of vats but income tax is still their main cash cow
this is a solution in search of a problem income tax works, economist agree when done right (as in you don’t raise income tax 50% in a day)it has the least distortion, it’s easy to collect and raises massive revenue
The number one thing the US spends on besides interest on debt is social security
Also America spends more on education per student then most of the world. The USA spends 13k per student for K-12, higher then countries like Finland, The Republic of Korea and Japan yet these countries outperform America routinely.
Social security and education are not funded through income tax. Social security is its own withholding and schools are funded through property tax.