How appropriate...

[Captain Morgan]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

This the reason we need to go to a fair or consumption tax. There are too many people writing off everything...

The problem with consumption tax is that there will be complete misers who will earn a ton and yet spend nothing. The government would have to wait till the misers die and their kids inherit the money before collecting tax on things. The government is too far in debt to wait that long, so they're just going to tax everything they can now.