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    What do you think is a reasonable effective tax rate?

    Take all your income. Taxable, non taxable, etc.
    Your total gross income each year.

    Then what you owe the feds each year.

    What percent of your total gross income are you coughing up to the feds?

    Not interested in AGI. Just gross income as individuals and taxes paid.

    (Yeah, I know, you also have state income tax in many cases, tax on gas, sales taxes, property taxes, etc. but let’s just look at the basics.)
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    God Himself only requires 10%. I'd think anything above that is thievery. That's 10% of your income: No deductions, no property taxes, no gross receipts taxes, no weird Spanish American War reparations taxes, etc.
    Last edited by Doc Safari; 03-18-19 at 16:53.

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    First, no more property or income taxes

    2nd a Flat Tax across the board

    3rd cut unnecessary spending

    4 no more welfare

    5 Crucify the owners of the Fed, abolish lend and spend, and tell Red China to FOAD

    6 Closed borders/Undisturbed Isolation

    7 All foreign interests PNGed/Crucified depending on my mood

    8 Legalize all the guns drugs and whores and leave taxation thereof to the states

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Safari View Post
    God Himself only requires 10%. I'd think anything above that is thievery.
    7% across the board sounds reasonable. No more penalizing people for doing better.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoringGuy45 View Post
    7% across the board sounds reasonable. No more penalizing people for doing better.
    This too but more crucifixions

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    yeah %10 IF they could use it properly would do great BUT the problem is not the amount its how its used

    seems we need to cut out so so so so so so much and get back to the basics and 0 special interest idiocy etc..

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramairthree View Post
    Take all your income. Taxable, non taxable, etc.
    Your total gross income each year.

    Then what you owe the feds each year.

    What percent of your total gross income are you coughing up to the feds?

    Not interested in AGI. Just gross income as individuals and taxes paid.

    (Yeah, I know, you also have state income tax in many cases, tax on gas, sales taxes, property taxes, etc. but let’s just look at the basics.)
    As little as possible and still perform duties required by constitution and some if the stuff added on.

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    What do you think is a reasonable effective tax rate?

    No federal taxes. Make them ask the states for it. Then we pay to the state according to what we can legislate locally. I think income tax is immoral. Property tax is also as a rent check to the govt. Consumption tax is palpable.

    States then negotiate with Fed what they want to pay for Fed services. No more Fed having direct coercive access to the pockets of every citizen.

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    In 2014 the average effective tax rate for:

    The richest 1% of taxpayers paid an average 24.7% effective rate

    A taxpayer making an average of $75,000.00 had an effective rate of 19.7%

    Trying to answer your question as I understand it:

    If you use everything we made (total income) and total taxes paid, our 2018 effective rate was 13.02%.

    If you use the taxable income and total taxes paid, our 2018 effective rate was 15.29%.

    Our marginal rate for 2018 was 24%.

    The problem with just about any tax plan you come up with, absent a progressive rate such as we currently have, is disparate impact on the lower brackets.
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    Why a %? Why not a flat per person rate. The rich and the poor are equal, right? That would only be fair.
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