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Re:Dan Price says raising min wage to $70k led to baby boom,... by imtringued on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:50PM (#28543558)
I disagree. All transaction based taxes are regressive and most of them can be easily dodged by avoiding taxable events. There is absolutely zero reason to tax any form of work whatsoever.

From a theoretical standpoint the best taxes would be on monopolies that extract economic rent and taxes on externalities. The prime candidates are the land value tax and carbon tax.

Re:Dan Price says raising min wage to $70k led to baby boom,... by giantg2 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:00PM (#28543654)
"There is absolutely zero reason to tax any form of work whatsoever."

Can you expand on that? Does that include capital investment if one meets the loose "materially participated" stipulation?

"The prime candidates are the land value tax and carbon tax."

This doesn't seem like a good idea. A carbon tax is transactional, so it could be avoided. Maybe good for policy implementation but not good for revenue. Land tax seems very similar to property tax already. We are seeing pushes in many states to eliminate it due to the high burden on lower income families and the elderly. For example, you may be taxing them on "wealth" that doesn't exist. This places the government in a position to take assets someone already owns. It's also mostly regressive as property tax is now. If you tax the inflow of money, then you know there is money that can be paid and can even be collected before the person ever receives it.