This video was produced by Caleb Brown ( www.twitter.com ) and Austin Bragg ( www.twitter.com ). The US tax code gets more complex every year. It violates civil liberties and, left unchanged, will leave the United States at a powerful competitive disadvantage in years to come. Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies, Senior Fellow Daniel J. Mitchell and Director of Information Policy Studies Jim Harper dissect the troubling aspects of our tax system.
CoolerKing37
February 9, 2011 at 3:54 am
THE TAXES! THE FINGER THING MEANS THE TAXES
micahstork
February 9, 2011 at 4:05 am
I’m so confused. I’d say it’s safe to say that I’m a Libertarian, but I don’t get why people are SO SQUEAMISH about giving over personal information… My main contention is that I don’t think that money is being used optimally when compared to a freer, private market, but if a centralized government truly was administering those funds in a fiscally responsible way, then I would have no problem having people reveal personal information. What do you have to hide? [answer: cheating on taxes?]
ewkeane
February 9, 2011 at 4:31 am
quit getting bent over the bus seat.
work for cash, sign no government forms, and tell uncle scam to go piss up a rope.
pdynamics1
February 9, 2011 at 4:41 am
Tax me on what I SPEND not on what I EARN. They should introduce a federal sales tax and abolish income tax. That way everyone payes taxes including organized crime…
a4finger
February 9, 2011 at 5:25 am
the IRS is so full of shit
melva1292
February 9, 2011 at 6:00 am
@Flamingo822 With the Fair Tax, there will be no more income tax. With the Flat tax, you pay that tax on top of the income tax. Which sounds better to you?
melva1292
February 9, 2011 at 6:08 am
@Rizky06 That is the reason you should find out before you vote which candidate is in favor of the Fair Tax.
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February 9, 2011 at 7:08 am
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bjornredtail
February 9, 2011 at 7:52 am
A progressive income tax does not necessarily increase the cost of compliance. Having a graduated income tax isn’t the source of ANY of the complexity that the CATO institute mentions in this video. Nearly all of this needless complexity and cost of compliance comes through the myriad of different deductions, just as this video points out. Remove all of these deductions and the cost of compliance falls, even with a progressive tax system.
EnonimusTransmission
February 9, 2011 at 8:06 am
@12FlyMe – Five “fucks”, two “shit”, one “ass”, one “idiot”, 50% of your paragraphs dedicated to insulting me/us with no facts. I think I rest my case.
12FlyMe
February 9, 2011 at 8:20 am
Enon dumb fuck – wrong retard. Your cliche filled ass is wrong. YOu eat cliches so you shit stupidity dumb fuck.
Income tax IS our biggest source of revenue you fucking idiot. FICA is second.
You dumb fucks think that getting rid of our biggest revenue source — cutting governmenet revenue by 50% — is going to solve the deficit? We are borrow almost 50% now – and you dumb fucks want us to CUT 50% of our goverment revenue.
A little cliche driven knowlege is your shirt fer brains/
EnonimusTransmission
February 9, 2011 at 8:38 am
@12FlyMe Don’t thank me, I don’t have a choice. BTW I’m not talking about living like it’s 1750. I’m talking about living like it’s early 2000s. The federal budget then was equal to what it is now minus the income tax revenue. You’ve been fed the delusion that we need financial slavery of individuals to pay for government. Today income tax isn’t even the federal governments biggest source of income — nearly 50% of Americans don’t pay any, yet they are still allowed to vote. It makes no sense.
12FlyMe
February 9, 2011 at 9:35 am
jdhien yes, or tax system needs an overhaul. I hope Obama and the dems do it. It sure as fuck wont be the GOP.
The complexity is because of the greedy bastards on Wall Street, and their pet dogs — the GOP. The Dems like Dodd are much the same. Get fucking wall street money and bank money out — lets see what happens then
Audit the fed – get real transparency — stop the ownership of Congress by the fat cats.
12FlyMe
February 9, 2011 at 10:21 am
Enon – thanks for paying!
EnonimusTransmission
February 9, 2011 at 11:05 am
@12FlyMe No, live like you’re free. You can choose to be the government’s bitch, it’s just too bad I have to pay the bill.
jdhein22
February 9, 2011 at 11:12 am
Wow. Pardon me for pointing out that the complexity is self-inflicted and that it ultimately ruins a pretty efficient system of collecting revenue. I guess that warrants being called a dumbf*ck. But I guess any comment other than dumbf*ck warrants being called a dumbf*ck. But if pointing out that our tax system is broken because of social engineering add-ons is so obvious that it warrants being called a dumbf*ck, why isn’t all of the smart leaders in Washington doing anything about it?
youneverheard
February 9, 2011 at 12:08 pm
@12FlyMe dumb fuck
Our government was not formed to provide “General Welfare” dumb fuck, it was formed to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”
NO government has any right to take my property, especially to use it to create more dumb fucks like you.
Take your dumb fucking ass and go read some dumb fuck books
Dumb fuck
youneverheard
February 9, 2011 at 12:34 pm
@12FlyMe dumb fuck
“General Welfare” means measures equally benefiting all citizens dumb fuck
Taking my money and giving it to people because they don’t have a job doesn’t benefit me dumb fuck
Taking my money and giving it to farmers to prop up the price of corn doesn’t benefit me dumb fuck
Taking my money and giving it to people who don’t have health insurance doesn’t benefit me dumb fuck
This is not “general welfare”
12FlyMe
February 9, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Enon — yeah great dumb ass. LIve like it’s 1750. Oh wait, fuck, we have 330 million people now. We have nuke weapons, global dependence on oil, people living to 100 needing huge medical care. Guess what dumb fuck — it aint 1750 anymore. Get a fucking time machine moron. Send us a postcard when you get there.
12FlyMe
February 9, 2011 at 2:16 pm
jdhien — yes– a country of 330 million – things get a little fucking complicated idiot.
A baseball little league can get complicated dumb fuck. Ever build a subdivision? That’s complicated too dumb fuck. Life is complicated. Ever put in your own electric service, redo your bathrooms, and add a garage? That’s complicated dumb fuck — get over it.
12FlyMe
February 9, 2011 at 2:50 pm
fish dumb fuck – the “general welfare” is what our federal government was formed to provide. Got that retard?
The “General welare” is a constitutional power you dumb fuck. Says so in the Constitution dumb fuck.
No – you may disagree with how Congress and the PResident do that — fine. Vote against them dumb fuck. That’s called representitive government idiot.
dirksilver
February 9, 2011 at 3:20 pm
@12FlyMe you should note that he also said fair tax…now go google it and whine some more leftist stupidity
by the way not only the rich have stoke options
dirksilver
February 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm
@MKeyserSoze you fail hahaha
EnonimusTransmission
February 9, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Flat tax? How about no direct individual tax, like America thrived under for so many years?
MKeyserSoze
February 9, 2011 at 4:38 pm
@trinamy In our country we have a saying, “you get what you pay for”. Your education is crap, and is the reason your country is a pathetic failure.