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Eliminate special treatment in tax code
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Aug. 8, 2012 1:32 pm
This concern about helping the middle class is misplaced. Just grow the economy and let pieces to the puzzle fall into place. We need wealth!
Our federal tax code is a joke. It favors this group and that group. Flat tax - yes, quit trying to channel people this way or that with the code. Find enough revenue to pay for a smaller government. Too much government regulation is killing this economy.
On property taxes, a two-tier code, one for residential and another for commercial, is wrong. We have to tax Internet sales - it's killing brick-and-mortar business.
Rebuild our economy with competitive tax rates; quit trying to stand on a mountain trying to pick winners and losers. No politician saw Bill Gates working on DOS or Windows. The fracking of oil and natural gas is a huge energy game changer and yet I don't believe the Department of Energy gets it.
Tom Kincheloe
Cedar Rapids
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