I would have a resource tax. I would tax people on the resources thay use up, destroyed, or any thay keep for thier private use. The resources of the earth should be shared by all and if someone use up, destroyed, or keep any for just thier private use thay should pay the rest of us for those resources through a resource tax that can be use to pay for government and any money left over can be rebated back to the rest of us. Since the rich use the most resources thay would pay the highest taxes. If you reclaimed resources you can get a tax credit, like cleaning up a river or recyling trash.
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VAT, Fair tax are not fair taxes at all, sounds more like pay off money to the mob. Two people trade something to help each other then a third party says they have to help him or he will hurt them. Not very fair I would say.
Nothing like class warfare to make a parasite happy.
Here's a little Econ 101 for you:
The RICH don't use resources, YOU DO. Any tax you want to put on them will be passed on to YOU.
I have a problem with the "resource" tax suggested in the comment. I assume that you probably live in a city. You state you would tax someone for keeping a resource for private use. Your resource tax is suggestive of socialism. Listen to yourself. "shared by all" "pay the rest of us for those resources" "pay for a fair government that helps everyone". Yikes. Earth's resources don't belong to all people. Us private use people make your food! Your entitlement mentality is scary and would never be tolerated where I live.
sjjames5, Yes we all share this earth, if you do not think so I will have a smoking party up wind from you. Maybe you think that global warming is a not real as storms wash your home away and do you think one person can dump crap all over without pissing off the people being dump on? I want explain better what I mean by private use, I mean hording resources with no benifit for others. A farmer grows food on his land and sells it other people, that benifits others, a person protects some land devlopment, that may benifit or may not benifit others depending type of land being protected and the type of devlopment. If one is protecting a dump from clean up is different from protecting a marsh from becoming a dump. And yes I want a government that helps everyone, what do you want, a government that only helps a few?? And when you die you do not take those rerources to heaven no matter what you think, but you leave them behind for the rest of us to deal with. By the way I live on 5 acres of land out of town. You are right the Earth's resources don't belong to all people, thay belong to all living things. No man is an island, we are all connected.
tomgoldie
Here's a little Econ 101 for you:
If the poor had resources they would not be poor.
And if a resource tax was done right the rich could not pass it on.
I did not say writing a resource tax law would be easy.
wgh2359
Nothing like class warfare to make a rich parasite happy.
And thier are a lot of rich parasites out there, they do no useful work.
There is a lot of poor parasites out there too, but one rich parasite = at least 100,000 poor parasites. It is not rich vs poor, it is useful people vs useless people and it is time to get the useless to do something, what? I am not sure they are useless.