YouTube Debate: Tax Questions?

On July 23, 2007, CNN and YouTube partnered to sponsor the first Democratic primary debate of the 2008 election cycle. Questions were asked by citizens from around the country by uploading personal videos to the YouTube website.

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[Salladsdressing]

i HAVE looked at your record, hillary.

it sucks.

REALLY bad.

a democrat who voted FOR the war and FOR the patriot act.

I'm voting for Ron Paul.

[DryBONESreborn]

Pittsburgh keeps taxing the heck out of everything and people leave---I wonder why. Who wants to vote for those who raise taxes? @_@

[safewaysecurity]

Taxes... what a stupid idea... government doesn't NEED revenue it WANTS revenue. How about stopping government programs and giving all that money back to the people.

[ourearthhome]

Land properly defined does not include anything we humans do on it. The definition of land in economics has been purposely confused to obscure the issue that land value is created 100% by the community. A natural resource is any kind of land before it is touched by human hands therefore "crops" are not natural resources but the result of human labor using tools(capital). The result of human effort belongs 100% to labor/capital and would not be touched by proper taxation of land values.

[milicalover]

does that include wind, which would cause farmers to pay even more?

... natural resources... like crops? they're natural

or how about computers? bill gates doesn't need so much

[ourearthhome]

The only serious comment below is the complaint about taxes falling on wage earners but no suggestions made about what to do about it. So why not demand that all taxes on labor be eliminated up to say $150K. Replace them with taxes on unearned incomes from land and natural resources which are highly concentrated in ownership. The justice in this is that land value is created by the community as a whole (all of us) and is therefore the appropriate source of revenue for public purposes.

[ourearthhome]

True enough but what are you for? I totally agree with the folks who have unmasked the IRS tax scam but they do not offer any positive alternative to the current tax system. There are some good specific ideas about reforming the monetary system and the FED but none advanced to reform taxation.

Except the one I like which is to eliminate all taxation on earned incomes from labor and capital and increase taxation on community created land values. The rent of the earth belongs to all.

[ourearthhome]

Pittsburgh rebuilt itself after the collapse of the steel industry and loss of property tax revenue starting in 1979 when they chose to shift the city property tax from buildings to land value. PA is the only state that allows this. At the height of the shift Pittsburgh's property tax on land value was 11 times more than on improvements. This is the only example urban renewal without government subsidy. They reverted to the old system of penalizing people who build a few years ago. Too bad.

[turtledogg]

yep, thats true!!

same with their satilite tvs and stuff

[xmannet]

Why not tax the poor more? All they do is sit around watching TV.  Do something with their lives.