Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
There is no pure free-market economy.
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.
If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.