Comments on: The Income Tax System is Broken

43 Percent Of Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax, A Sign That Something's Wrong, Writes Declan McCullagh

[caldwellptr]

The Income Tax System is Broken - DUH!

[mars7578]

Fair taxation is one of the pillar of this democracy.However, this uneven taxation is destroying the health of AMERICA,and has transformed capitalism into imperilism.By now most legency corporations would have pensions and health accounts that would be turning a profit.Social Security would never run out of money.Business wages, reseserves,and benefits would be based on production rather than wall street projections.Insurance companies would have lowers rates and better service.Having paid off homes and low interest credit cards would be normal.But instead we've created a tax code that is based on loopholes that have reshaped society.Unless this tax system is fixed,America is on course to resemble a third world society.The need of a governmental heath system is a result of our business model which has grown out of our tax code.Extremely high bonuses again is a tax loophole product.High unemployment and layoff are directly related to tax changes.Close all tax breaks and set clear requirements when and how long a businees or individual needs an exception.

[babooph]

This propaganda story left out the rich ,having the bulk of their $ EXEMPT from social security tax & social security tax FULLY charged to the LOWEST earners-same lobbyists likely arranged the "STORY".

[icecreamjunkie]

OK...were ready to replace it with the federal consumption tax....drop the whole "income" tax idea all together.

Tax the things we buy rather than our paychecks, that way those who have money pay more and those that don't have money pay less...O'bama will have his "automatic" increase in tax for the wealthy and those without automatically pay less...wow so simple. And then ALL income gets it's fair share of tax whether someone made it on a payroll check, tips for services, money made overseas which is brought home [currently not taxed], people watching porn on the internet could be paying [currently not taxed], people in illegal activities [drugs, firearms, prostitution...whatever] would still be giving Uncle Sam his share.

And if the government is concerned about taxing homes, cars to get to work in, or food...don't tax that; or have a "very reduced rate" for those items.

[goffredo29]

You know what else is broken? Wikipedia. It started out as an amazing idea and particularly useful for retrieving information very difficult to find anywhere else. Then came the wikinazis, the system administrators who infest and plague the utility. Their characteristic in common is analness. Content is really of no concern to them, they're just a band of obsessive-compulsives poised to ponce arbitrarily on the content and eliminate it. Someone needs to start over and create a similar utility but without an overclass with no other qualification than anality.

[stinger1z]

So now that Obama is president, taxes are suddenly ridiculous and we should not pay them? Where were your balls for the last 8 years??

[rocketjl]

Let everyone pay a flat 10% tax on all income.

[bunnie69]

i thought we came here to be free.... free to pay taxes...free to follow rules from some person that has enough money to be elected.... free to go to jail....free to do as 1 man says.... where is free in america.... where is free at anywhere.... no matter what u do this is just like any other country... some one to make stupid rules some one to enforce those stupid rules and everyone else to pay for it....get off the stupidness and accept this is the way the world is all over... dont like it go back to where u came from.... dont like it do something about it.... dont like it move to another place where u do like it.....
get over it already

[noloyalisti]

Declan is totally correct. We do not tax the rich nearly enough. They made ALL their money off of the commons that we all own and off the backs of working folks.

Our income taxes and sales taxes are unfair and target the poor. The big corporations specifically should be gone after and not allowed to evade taxes.

[Solarrays247]

While we are looking at our tax system we should be looking at our spending system. They go hand in hand.
Posted by WITHINMEANS at 3:29 PM : Apr 16, 2009

Yes, yes, and yes!