1st, we should eliminate taxation without representation. If my tax money is going towards the study of a frog's sex life or a bunch of slithery illegal aliens ... then those practices must END immediately. Secondly, I'm for a flat sales tax. Property tax and income tax should be completely eliminated, pronto!

How about taxing toys of the rich. VAT but only for obscene shit like private jets and yachts along with expensive European cars. Mansions that use 10x the energy of a normal home. After all, isn't it the super wealthy celebrities calling for higher taxes.

Flat tax at 20% after the first $50K being tax free and a national sales tax at 2.5% with food and other basic needs exempt.

Politician's incomes should be taxed more.

None - The government already receives far more in taxes than is acceptable

The U.S. Government is the sovereign issuer of the U.S. Dollar, and it doesn't need to tax its own dollars to have them to spend. Taxation is just a mechanism to create demand for dollars and to regulate the supply of dollars, because taxation has the effect of "unprinting" excess dollars and removing them from the economy to control inflation. It's MMT 101.

I support an appropriate tax strategy, an excellent system which generally ensures contributions are based on income and wealth for the benefit of all. Of course the balance of how much is raised, type and how it is spent is always arguable. What I do think is essential is for demonstration of integrity within the system. At present the super rich and the richer and larger companies have a distinct advantage as employ lawyers and accountants who actively hide and move profit around the world to escape tax. As they are generally also powerful and influential politicians avoid confronting them (Taxing the rich is a subject always neatly avoided at Davos) These should be actively and visibly targeted. It remains obscene that some have extreme wealth whilst others starve. Most of us will willingly contribute if the money is spent wisely for the greater good but require fairness.

Flat tax. No other solution.

Individuals' income tax is the single most important source of government revenue. Since the mid 1970s it has consistently raised around half of the Australian Government's tax receipts and continues to be a stable and predictable source of revenue.

I have a hypothesis, that may be completely false, that taxes on the middle class subsidize corporate business. (I am UK based, I don't know about the situation in the US)

The way I think about it, is that low salaries by corporations are only possible because the taxes on the middle class pay for health care, housing and education. This allows large businesses to reduce the minimum salaries they offer to employees, as people can accept those lower salaries, because the middle class, which pays income tax, pay for many of the basics.

At the same time, this reduces the freedom of people on the lower end of salary scales, as they depend on the state to provide for them, and they can't choose for example where to live or where to take their kids to school.

As a middle class tax payer, my preference would be for someone else to pay more tax, rather than me. Preferably large businesses. Then again, I imagine if large businesses had higher taxes, this would reduce the number of people they employ, which in turn would reduce tax revenue.

It would be interesting to see a mathematical model of different scenarios with different tax assumptions and comparative taxation of different groups of individuals. I imagine this would have been done by some department of government already. FOIA requests anyone?

I would prefer a universal, non-protective tariff.