Double Taxation Flowchart
Explaining the Perverse Impact of Double Taxation With a Chart:
There are a lot of boxes, so it’s not a simple flowchart, but the underlying message hopefully is very clear.- We earn income.
- We then pay tax on that income.
- We then either consume our after-tax income, or we save and invest it.
- If we consume our after-tax income, the government largely leaves us alone.
- If we save and invest our after-tax income, a single dollar of income can be taxed as many as four different times.
You don’t have to be a wild-eyed supply-side economist to conclude that this heavy bias against saving and investment is not a good idea for America’s long-run prosperity.
Há um pequeno grande engano no ponto 4. O Governo também taxa bastante forte o que se gasta "em proveito próprio" - faça umas estimativas, e maravilhe-se. O After-tax is not really after-tax, mas antes, between taxes. Mais ainda, o governo encoraja a gastar mais do que (não) se tem, endividado-se. Ja viu as facilidades que há para comprar a credito? Compare com as dificuldades em poupar. Quem poupa é o pato desta fita.
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