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
One thing I hate about it is like. Okay child support as an example. If you make 100, 000 a year before taxes they will just take out 17,000 for child support. But your take home would be significantly less. Making that 17% income steal feel more like 40%.
I hate how every single financial aid or housing or anything that requires an income to apply for always uses before tax gross income. If you want buy a house they use gross income.
If you take home shit money and you want federal or state assistance, “sorry for gross income you make too much to get any sort of financial aid. Not our fault landlords hike up rent. Just buy a house”
Ok but 17k for a kid is a bargain.