The Glade 4.0

Completely unworkable and frankly, stupid.

How unworkable is it exactly considering that wholesalers don't pay tax already.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Your proposed scheme suggests that only the first end user of the end product pays the sales tax. The inability to clearly define any of the steps in such a manner makes it incredibly open to abuse, not to mention a nightmare for any supplier/producer to track and collect taxes from those that are final users or those that are further producers. If I own a lumber yard that owns its own property, owns the mill and cuts down its own trees and sells those trees, one client might be a Ébéniste, who under your plan doesn't get charged sales tax unless he is making those components for his own use. That causes me undue problems in accurately assessing sales taxes. No thanks.

Whats more, I disagree with the concept, since every transaction that occurs is a trade of property. I don't see the reason for a distinction between raw materials, different levels of production, the first consumer and subsequent consumers.

What does a "trade of property" have to do with user fees?

The government has the right to extort several times the value of the good out of the economy so long as the good is circulated often?

How much sense does that make?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

A hell of a lot more sense than creating a convoluted and easily abused system as you are suggesting. An item that is never "finished" as a final product is never taxed, despite the framework that protects possession of that item, the raw materials and the transactions involved in the exchange of that product being utilized at each step.

Under what other method of collecting revenue are you suggesting be implemented in conjunction with this sales tax? Are services to be taxed?

Ditto, mofos.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Get back to you from home later.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

I have no problem with this, but I would like to see the reasoning better articulated.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I'll sit here and wait for Khross, because its about 50/50 he'll have the same reason as I do, and explain it "better."

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Inheritance of land should not be taxed. Sale of land should be taxed as a sale, but only proportionally to the costs of protecting the land of the nation.

The government is obligated to defend all land from criminal action, outside attack, and to assist in its protection and recovery in the event of disaster. Therefore, the tax on the sale of land should be proportional to the amount of public funds spent on such activities.

If, for example, the net amount of public income that is spent on defense, law enforcement, and emergency services is 40%, then the sale of land should be taxed at 40% of the normal sales tax rate.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I agree with parts of this in principle. In addition to no inheritance tax, I would also suspend all property taxes. Normal sales (consumption) taxes, of a uniform rate with all other sales (consuption) taxes should be applied as they are to all other goods and services. What you are purchasing with those sales taxes is the protection of contract and property law, and the costs associated with them. Including the military, the court system, the police, and the infrastructure those several things obviously require.

This is a one time tax, and does not logically lend itself in any way to the notion of government owning property. Instead it lends itself exclusively to the notion of government protecting those property rights.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

The only tax that should be levied is sales tax, and should be on the sale price. No tax on your income should be levied, because taxing income is deleterious to motivation.



The exchange is a two-part sale, and should have a sales tax levied on the total value of the exchange.



Not sure I fully get what you mean by this question, but no tax should be levied on income. Instead, this should be viewed as a barter, as above, and sales tax should be levied on the total transaction amount.



I should note that I am not determining who is responsible for the sales tax: buyer, seller, or a mix. I'd leave that to others.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine