What is the purpose for income tax?

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by lookout123

The question in all of this is simply, are taxes a means to fund necessary functions of government or are they just a way to play Robin Hood?

The government has no conscience. Just an appetite and the will to survive.

Its never been about fairness or wealth redistribution. Its allways been about hunger and preserving one's political future. Nothing more, nothing less.

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by Beestie

The government has no conscience. Just an appetite and the will to survive.

Oddly enough, you can say the same thing about a corporation.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by TGRR

Oddly enough, you can say the same thing about a corporation.

True, but a corporation doesn't have police power.

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by Beestie

True, but a corporation doesn't have police power.

Yes they do...they borrow the governments.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Yes they do...they borrow the governments.

Ftw.