Talk:Tax Freedom Day
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[edit] Request clarification on tax rates on rich
This article says "the rich pay a much higher proportion of their income in tax". In contrast, I always hear that wealthy people have various ways to hide their income such as offshore countries or the lower tax-rate on capital gains.
Don't want an edit-war or anything but would like some discussion on this point to ensure NPOV.
EmRick 22:09, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
The word trick is "officially considered income". That may leave out an awfully lot of untaxable "income".159.105.80.141 14:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV
While reading this I noted that the author of the article only gave the opinions of critics of the Tax Freedom Day. I was wondering if anyone could get the people for it?
[edit] Criticisms sections
This section only seemed to apply to the U.S. tax freedom day so I made it a subheading under United States. Christopher Parham 02:03, 2005 May 23 (UTC)
[edit] Cost of government
I removed the phrase that equates the total amount of taxes with "cost of government". While "cost of government" (such as salaries for politicians, maintainance of ministry buildings, paying for blunders any government makes every now and then,, etc), a large part of taxes does not at all contribute to "cost of government", but instead is used for schools, police, national defence, roads, etc.
Of course, the Anarchist POV is that without a government we would not pay taxes at all, so in this sense every tax is caused by the government.
--Aleph4 13:02, 30 September 2005 (UTC)