... so folks like the Rockefeller's can't avoid taxes for 100 years and entities like Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street get to pay their fair share on their raw monopolistic economic power.
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Personally, I'm in favor a hybrid flat tax/progressive sales tax system. Flat tax on everyone with incentives offered based on family size and marital status (Just like Hungary is doing which is actually helping them return to traditional morals, beliefs, etc. while also allowing for organic population growth in a stable manner), and then have a progressive sales tax that taxes you more, the higher you spend on a single item. Want that Rolls Royce? Ok, that'll be a 40% sales tax on it. Wanna buy a used Silverado? 5% sales tax.
Of course this doesn't account for actual tax deductions and whatnot that legitimate business owners use, like real estate deductions, carried inventory deductions, losses, payroll deductions, etc. etc.
But you get my point. This is the answer I've come to. Like everyone else I'd LOVE to have zero taxes, but that's not feasible in the modern era. People go on about "but they did X in the 1800s without any taxes!" Well yeah, they didn't have modern infrastructure to keep up and maintain in the 1800s. Would you like for us to go back to dirt roads? Zero regulations on hunting and fishing (which almost caused the extinction of the Buffalo)? Crapping and peeing in out houses since we have no public water or sewer? etc. etc.
People need to stop trying to be the opposite end extreme of the morons we're fighting. There IS a happy medium here, and THAT is what we should strive for in the future, so that we can actually live the lives we want to live with the standards we want and desire.