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[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
> " Over the coming decade, a growing number of taxpayers
> " will become liable for the AMT. In 2010, if nothing is
> " changed, one in five taxpayers will have AMT liability
> " and nearly every married taxpayer with income between
> " $100,000 and $500,000 will owe the alternative tax.
> " Rather than affecting only high-income taxpayers who
> " would otherwise pay no tax, the AMT has extended its
> " reach to many upper-middle-income households. As an
> " increasing number of taxpayers incur the AMT, pressures
> " to reduce or eliminate the tax are likely to grow."
> " 
> " (the above quote is from the linked document, from 2004)
> 
> ...so of course the correct move would be to raise the amt threshold
> until it again targeted only the extremely wealthy - but also of
> course, the wealthy and their political puppets will be careful to
> steer the debate well away from any suggestion of that sort...

Well, actually, no.  That would be a band-aid on top of a band-aid.

The CORRECT move, but one which it's highly unlikely the government will
actually pull the trigger on because too many of their friends benefit
from the current situation, is to scrap the entire existing tax code and
start over with something that isn't chock-full of loopholes, exceptions
and special privileges and penalties.  Something like the Fair Tax
scheme, for example, which is really quite a clever and elegant scheme.
 The whole reason the AMT became "necessary" in the first place is
because COngress had been stuffing the tax code with loopholes and
exceptions for fifty years in return for favors from wealthy campaign
contributors who wanted to pay less taxes than their neighbors.


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