@levisan income tax.

It should be calculated at a flat percentage for everyone with a reasonable deductible. The deductible would be pegged as a multiple of the federal minimum wage.

And I’d also set a maximum tax burden as well, which is pegged to a multiple of the deductible.

@levisan it’s worth noting, I don’t believe that tax should be applied to corporations.

Corporations can’t vote, so in the spirit of “no taxation without representation”, that income tax should only apply to individual citizens.

@mike @levisan this combined with the flat income tax seems like it’d lead a society towards corporatist oligarchy/aristocracy in the medium to long term, no?

@sabbatical @levisan I don’t see how it would be meaningfully worse than what we have now. And everyone else would end up with more money in their pocket.

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@mike @levisan i was thinking that without other forms of tax, if we also didn’t tax corps, and without tax brackets, gov would essentially have to make the % for income tax quite high. this would put workers/lower/middle in a more vulnerable position, while corps and wealthier folks likely still have more money than before, so can prob buy up newly vulnerable assets/land. long term, seems like would cause concentration of those assets way beyond what it is now

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