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Re:Killing TurboTax by cies on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:39AM (#26340839)
> Here's my dream [...] The only tax is a Sales tax/VAT/GST.

Ok, I'll share mine: the only tax is on pollution and/or scare resource usage.

It's weird that we tax anything that's considered "good" in my opinion. Taxing housing, income from labour, consumption -- who came up with these shit ideas? Tax only, ONLY, what is considered bad (or should be reduced to a minimum), mainly: pollution. And the market will organize itself accordingly; optimize for all of us to survive a little longer on this planet (instead of exploiting it ASAP).

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Re:Killing TurboTax by nextaccountic on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:24AM (#26341103)
Fully agreed! We need to tax the hell out of such externalities.

Perhaps the main tax of the whole humanity should be a carbon tax, at least in the 21th century.

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Re:Killing TurboTax by FabHK on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:02AM (#26341793)
Both together would be good. Tax externalities (=carbon tax etc.), and tax consumption (=VAT).
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