I for one sure as hell won't go for an expansion of a regressive tax like the sales tax. An income tax is the fairer system of taxation, even with the complexities that accompany it. It's fair and just to base people's taxes in large part on what they make; otherwise, again you'll just be taxing the lower levels out of existence. People -- especially in liberal bastions of the country -- have GOT to get over this notion that government's job is to level the playing field for everybody. Unless we want to adopt European style economic policies, the boats will never be level. And again, I have friends who were either born in and-or worked in high-tax places like Denmark, Sweden, etc. and there's no way they'll go back. I think the better idea would be to encourage our environmentally-related businesses to expand overseas and take our technological edge to those countries. That would be more business for a U.S. company, and would also benefit the global economy. Again, to me, the best approach is to increase the level of everyone's ability to be an economic participant. Well, some American companies do too. GE put PCBs in the Hudson for years and still hasn't cleaned them up. I think the best course of action is something that incentivizes, rather than unfairly benefit or penalize. For example, tax credits contingent on a company actually doing something positive, are better than tax cuts.
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