Someone close to me, after reading the preceding blog post,
felt I appeared a little cold-hearted. I
don’t really consider myself as that; but, perhaps, my writing sometimes gives
that impression.
“The questionable comment was as follows: “Such a system would instantly include all
the tax freeloaders like those ‘working under the table,’ drug dealers and
others involved in criminal activities, as well as the reported 50% of
American citizens who currently do not pay any income taxes.” (Part of sentence underlined for emphasis.)
Now, I do understand that many Americans live near the poverty level through no fault of their own. Life sometimes can be very unfair – as we all
know. To those who honestly struggle to
get by day to day, I am truly sorry. I
should not have included those good people in the same sentence with ‘drug
dealers’ and those ‘working under the table.’
However, my post was not intended to describe an all-inclusive,
fair tax system. My post was designed to
highlight the reasons for the existing fraud and the obvious incentives for
fraud in the present tax system. Even the
act of exempting 50% of the population from paying federal income tax has
created another incentive – the incentive to keep reported income and any
possible documentable income below a certain amount. Are all of the 50% of Americans who do not
pay federal income tax cheating? No, of
course not. Are some of them, even many
of them cheating? Yes.
True Nelson
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