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Did I forget to mention how to calculate “fair share”?

T = total tax bill (the sum of all the taxes collected from the people)

N = the number of people living in the country.

D = The number of people you claim as dependents when calculating your cost of living deductable OR the number of children under 18 living in your house hold (which ever is more)
Fair Share = (T/N) * D

You want to tax the poor more, this does it.

I wouldn’t give a full $30,000 as free of tax.
Does it take that much to meet basic substance?
That is not making the poor pay their fair share.

Red’s plan works better for me though, my taxes would go way down (assuming I only had to pay that 35% on my house once and not each year).

A $35,000.01 house is not a luxury item.

If they did have a luxury tax like that, stuff would just get split into smaller buckets.
But I would have to break the house it into a lot of pieces to get each one under $35,000 dollars. Maybe I could buy the roof on one contract and the floors on another, etc …
I could see people doing something like this to avoid the taxes.

Flat Tax

Pay 23% on anything above $30,000.

Or a National Sales Tax on luxury items.

Pay 35% on anything that cost more than $35,000. Yes, that would include houses.

Who decides what “fair share” is?

ok, I am going to bore you all with Eileen’s tax plan, a compromise between “fair” and “what we can afford”
(You can stop reading here if you like ..)

What is Fair:
We all pay the same amount for things like the basic government structure and defense and stuff that benefits all pretty close to equally.
We pay based on our use of other stuff.

Affordable:
No one pays so much tax that they don’t have enough money to house and feed their family. (My idea of what people need is less than what many now get for free).

What is “Fair” is not necessarily “Affordable” by some.

(This is another good point to stop reading if you don’t agree with me so far).

The Plan:

No Tax on some set amount based on cost of living in your area and the size of your family.

30% tax on everything after that UP TO what is considered your fair amount.
(Your share if we took the whole bill and divided it among all the people. You would have to pay the share for all your dependents as well.)

After that you start paying a gradually DECREASING amount to help cover the cost of those who can not afford their fair share.

This means if you have more kids, you would have a lower base non taxed amount, but would have a higher fair share.
However once you paid your “fair” share, the tax percent on your remaining income would start to go gradually down.

I would also propose a tax refund, later in life if your kids become tax contributors instead of tax burdens.

(If my comment is longer does it decrease the advantage of the terrorists?)

Tax monger.

“and I still guarantee that we will invade Canada to steal their oil.”

Most of our oil is in the part of the country that believes in gun ownership and “wars for oil”…so come and get it, Cheeky…