Isn't the only fair way to tax people is to not tax them?

There isn't any fair way to tax people and no government has ever been interested in fair taxation. All laws and taxes are instituted based on how easy it is to collect. Fair does not even enter into it except as propaganda.

That is, for example, why a used car is taxed but goods at a garage sale are not. You can conveniently keep track of the ownership of the car but not of cheap 2nd hand goods. It's all about ease of enforcement of the tax.

Obviously it is going to be easier to collect taxes from people who actually have money to give up. That is why the rich and middle classes are taxed so. Why would they pursue taxes from poor people with no money? So propaganda is instituted to give the appearance of mercy for the sake of good press for the government. Yet if there was a way to do it without starting mass rioting, the government would tax every poor person to the last dollar if it could.

The Founding Fathers tried very few taxes at all, but found it to be disastrous. National defense was a joke, our coasts were being raided, trade ships destroyed by pirates and settlements destroyed by hostile Native Americans. It failed on epic proportions, but was worth a shot. So imagine what it would be like with no taxes at all

The only fair way is to tax at an even rate. The poor will always be poor, and the rich will always be rich. Trying to make the poor rich and the rich poor just doesn't work. I would love for everyone to be able to afford a Mercedes and play a round of golf every Sunday, but it just can't happen.

At which point there would be no money for the government, so there would be no programs or social safety nets available to protect the poor, and no government regulations to keep the rich from exploiting the poor. We've lived through that time before, it was called Victorian England. Known well for its child labor and sprawling poverty.

Taxes pay for the military, which keeps the 1% in power. If you run the world, that's fair.

I think a certain percentage for everyone would be fair. If you make very little, then you pay very little in taxes

Rich people are a ward of the State. Without the State, there would be no trusts and without any trusts there could be no 'aires.

What is a fair way to tax?

http://nontrivialpursuits.org/Tax_Policy.htm

Do you really think your silly little posts are going to get rid of taxes? Give it a rest. You are clogging up the forum

No taxes = Somalia. Is that REALLY what you want?