Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis suggested that he would eliminate a number of government agencies during an interview on Wednesday.  “Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies? I know conservatives in the past have talked about closing the Department of Education, would you do that?” Fox News’s Martha MacCallum asked the Florida governor on […]

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      1 year ago

      There was a brief period after the us got it’s independence where taxes were basically voluntary. As you can imagine, it was not a sustainable government

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      He says he’d move to a single rate system, which while simplified may be better than what we have now, it is still not good for the average person.

      20% of my salary feels like a hell of a lot more of my paycheck than a CEO with a million a year.

      For a person at 100k, they’re left with 80k. For a person with 1M, they’re left with 800k, still well above everyone else.

      And that’s assuming DePuddin Fingers doesn’t put in any loopholes for his rich oligarchy friends.