Meme Thread for Memes and other assorted Lulz

[Fife]

[Fife]

[Fife]

[Speaker to Animals]

Would you be cool with abolishing confiscatory taxes in favor of consumption taxes?

[Fife]

Sales taxes are about as regressive as it gets, though. Especially in a place like Tennessee, where nothing is exempt, not food, clothing, medical needs, nothing.

There is at least a wink and a nod towards voluntaryism with sales tax, but not really the way we do it here.

The income tax is the intolerable tax; replacing AIDS with cancer isn't the best option for the patient, IMNSHO.

It's no historical coincidence that the Marxists got the Fed at the same time they rammed through the 16th A. (and the 17th as well).

[Speaker to Animals]

Sales taxes are about as regressive as it gets, though. Especially in a place like Tennessee, where nothing is exempt, not food, clothing, medical needs, nothing.

There is at least a wink and a nod towards voluntaryism with sales tax, but not really the way we do it here.

The income tax is the intolerable tax; replacing AIDS with cancer isn't the best option for the patient, IMNSHO.

It's no historical coincidence that the Marxists got the Fed at the same time they rammed through the 16th A. (and the 17th as well).

What if it doesn't get applied to food and utility goods?

[Fife]

Well, if we limited the state's need for revenue to what it needed to provide actual, IRL, public goods only, we could get by with taxes that we would hardly feel.

On the state and local level, we could certainly talk about consumption taxes in a way that we didn't have to fight for what would be exempted; we could just quibble over which types of consumption should be included. E.g., miniature back yard train sets; first-class plane tickets; yachts; that kind of stuff.

The federal government could easily get by like it always did before Mr. Lincoln's war and Mr. Wilson's war: tariffs.

[Penner]

One of the rules of business, know your costumers

[Penner]

But you do end up electing your representatives and send them to (supposedly) represent you and your neihbors wants.

[de officiis]

One of the rules of business, know your costumers

And your customers.