> Speaking of income tax, can we get a discount for the days that the federal government is shut down?
The income tax doesn't go to fund the government.
Rather, debt spending is used to fund the government -- debt that your unborn children are saddled with -- and then the income tax revenues extracted from their labor is what's used to cover the interest payments on that debt.
Interestingly, the Federal Reserve inflates about $85 billion per month, which works out to about a trillion dollars per year. (And that money is created as debt, which we owe back plus interest.)
So if we were able to trim the fat and reduce the Federal Budget to that amount, then we could fund the entire Federal Government simply by continuing to print $85 billion per month. (Which would not require any new debt, and which would not require any income tax, and would not require saddling future generations with interest payments on their own money.)
So instead of asking about getting a "discount" on our income tax, we should be asking about eliminating the income tax entirely, reducing government spending to sustainable levels, and eliminating creation of money through debt.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 40.5 ms ] threadFor example, if the government is offline for 18 days (5% of the year), I suggest that downtime should be applied as a 5% federal income tax discount.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/0930/Federal-shutdown...
The income tax doesn't go to fund the government.
Rather, debt spending is used to fund the government -- debt that your unborn children are saddled with -- and then the income tax revenues extracted from their labor is what's used to cover the interest payments on that debt.
Interestingly, the Federal Reserve inflates about $85 billion per month, which works out to about a trillion dollars per year. (And that money is created as debt, which we owe back plus interest.)
So if we were able to trim the fat and reduce the Federal Budget to that amount, then we could fund the entire Federal Government simply by continuing to print $85 billion per month. (Which would not require any new debt, and which would not require any income tax, and would not require saddling future generations with interest payments on their own money.)
So instead of asking about getting a "discount" on our income tax, we should be asking about eliminating the income tax entirely, reducing government spending to sustainable levels, and eliminating creation of money through debt.