tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499771266402854669.post5366867999811549914..comments2024-02-08T01:44:24.272-05:00Comments on ModeratePoli: Republicans can't make a flat tax work eitherModeratePolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01721945380057992971noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499771266402854669.post-84350531810837678072014-03-12T11:49:03.081-04:002014-03-12T11:49:03.081-04:00Nice to have you back, MP.
The other day, I had a...Nice to have you back, MP.<br /><br />The other day, I had a conversation with a former blogger who self-described as an "anarcho-captialist". He doesn't blog anymore, but that brand of extreme libertarianism is pervasive in mainstream Republican thought. Nobody expects to get elected on an extreme platform, mind you, but they all wish that the flat tax rate was zero.<br /><br />Hence, the notion that the lower the flat tax rate the less government intrudes and the more spread the burden (read: the poor pay more) guides their plans.<br /><br />Of course their tax proposals don't work with respect to matching expenditures. They'd rather slash the expenditures -- particularly on those who they feel AREN'T paying their fair share of taxes (e.g. 47%), which is their real objection.<br /><br />The intellectual intersection between GOP and anarcho-capitalist is that everyone should be a free agent and nobody should be a burden on those who are producing.<br /><br />The irony is that I CAN make a flat tax work. And that tax rate is zero. But you can't not have a government so you need some other way to pay for the services government provides and the social safety net that prevent anarcho-captalist reality (vs. fantasy) from occurring. That is, not Thunderdome.<br /><br />The democratically elected government doesn't tax. It just prints whatever money it needs to meet the precepts of the Congress. Sure, that would dilute the currency and you'd have inflation, but you wouldn't have to pay taxes.<br /><br />Inflation is the tax, flat on everyone. Sorry. No free lunch.Dangerousnoreply@blogger.com