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First problem. Due to the reserve fraction of 10%, 90% of the money printing benefit would go to private banks rather than the federal government. That's rather easily fixable. Increase the reserv …

Well, note that the FairTax would eliminate four kinds of taxes: Income tax. Current rates are 0%, 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, and 39.6%. Payroll taxes. … Income taxes It is true that only about 50% pay income taxes, but most of those are middle class. …

The next lower tax rate was 36% (PDF). Then they added a 10% surcharge (3.6%) for those with higher incomes. That made it 39.6% total. This was in 1993 (history). In 2001, tax rates were changed …

Finally, while people are the ones who pay taxes, the system doesn't tax people at different rates, at least not explicitly. It mostly taxes transfers of money in some form. … For example, someone who pays 10% on $9200 nets $8280 after $920 in taxes. If that same person would pay 15% on $9400, then the net would be $7990 after $1410 in taxes. …

In the House, Ways and Means is the main one. Budget also matters. Rules touches every bill a little, as they set the rules for voting. In the Senate, Finance is the main one. Budget. If …

Taxes change value independently of the number of people using them. Therefore, if you want the revenue to be proportional to the number of people using them, you need to adjust them constantly. … Anyway, the point is that unless you are talking about a tax that is collected separately from the national tax, taxes are inherently under the jurisdiction of politicians. And thus political. …

This is how property taxes already work. More importantly, a wealth-added tax on a stock would be collected at the brokerage level. So the brokerage would report the asset to the IRS. … Each level would be able to deduct taxes paid at previous levels. For example, if a corporation owns a rental property. Tax will be paid on the rental property. …

Consumers evaluate products by their final price while companies evaluate products by how much they get net of taxes. … This is also true of corporate income taxes, but as they are nominally on profits, the connection is less clear. …

Property taxes are local (county, school district, and municipality) taxes. The Tax Foundation doesn't like them because rich people pay a lot. … The employees want credit for the taxes being paid. If the employers just pocket the taxes, then they can't deduct the employee's wages or salary from the business income taxes. …

Their theory is that real estate taxes are the only legitimate taxes because they can work that way. But under current law, the system does not work that way. … For a long time, Pittsburgh (in Pennsylvania) had separate taxes on land and buildings with different rates. So in the US, it is possible for a government to tax land. …

The reason why it exists in the current Senate bill is that it exists in the current system and they didn't fix it. You do not have to look farther than that. The House did fix this as part of red …

For example, deductions for State and Local Taxes (SALT), mortgage interest, and even dependents. … To reduce taxes to that group, we'd have to make changes to the Social Security and Medicare taxes. I.e. the taxes that they actually pay. …

The budget will include revenue sources, i.e. taxes. The second step is that the House of Representatives will create a bill making tax changes, often based on the presidential budget. … A president does not have unilateral power to change taxes except in some edge cases (through regulatory interpretation). …

Personal income and payroll taxes are on a modified version of employee compensation. Payroll taxes Payroll taxes used to be evenly divided between an employer and employee share. … However, payroll taxes are no longer evenly divided. And not all employers are corporations. But all corporate taxes are paid by corporations. …

The United States taxes global income (as opposed to territorial income as in most countries). So the income of the export is taxed in the US when it is repatriated to the US. …