[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 7, 2009, at 18:22 , Phil Stracchino wrote:

> OK, this is the basic idea:  Completely abolish all federal personal  
> and
> corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative
> minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes.   
> Replace
> the above taxes with a single flat rate national sales tax at 23% on  
> all
> NEW goods for personal consumption.  Every month, the government sends
> out a "prebate" to every household in the amount of the sales tax on
> basic necessities up to the federal poverty level.

I think they need to add a few things to that:

- no more property taxes... you already paid for it, it is yours, and  
cannot be
   taken away due to "taxes owed"
- no more double taxation (the used goods without tax is part of that)

I would be happy with either sales tax or a flat tax.

Even if we used a flat tax system, the IRS could be reduced to about 5  
people running a computer and some printers.

An fairly bog-standard modern server could probably do everyone's  
taxes easily if it were reduced to a single percentage with no other  
rules except maybe a poverty line calculation.

No more errors, audits, etc either.

But sales tax could be done too, but I've read that it can actually be  
hard to enforce a lot of that, and will encourage people to use black/ 
gray markets to avoid it, and that it is not all that hard to do so.



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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com