Hidden vs Transparent Taxes: A Summary of the Points Made in This Series

1. In this series I will explain the important differences between hidden taxes and transparent taxes.

2. I will show why I believe a transparent tax system offers consumers a choice and why our current hidden tax system often includes no choice.

3. I will explain why I feel our current system of hidden taxes is hurting those members of our society who are faced with the challenge of trying to live on a much smaller income than the rest enjoy.

4. I will explain why I believe our current system of hidden taxes allows business to hide the cost of the taxes government requires them to pay inside the prices the rest of us are charged for the products, goods, and services we buy.

5. I will explain why hidden taxes means that we are actually paying the taxes government claims to require of business.

6. I will show how the food and grocery items purchased by the poorest members of our society include the cost of the hidden taxes that businesses are legally allowed to hide inside their prices.

7. I will show how changing from our current system of hidden taxes to transparent taxes can help to lower the cost consumers pay for many of the most important and basic items they need to purchase.

8. I will show how and why our system of hidden taxes can result in two households with identical gross incomes, identical dependents end up paying taxes at a different effective rate.

9. For those who have strongly held political beliefs and positions, I will show how it is possible to change from a hidden tax system to a transparent tax system without reducing the amount of actual tax dollars government would budget for and collect.

10. I will also show how doing this will allow government to have the potential of doing more with the same amount of tax revenues.

11. I will show why I believe it is important for my readers who like what I am proposing to share this with their family, friends, and especially with their elected officials.

Thank you for taking time to read and ponder my opinion on this topic.
An Opinion Article by Dave Kemper
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It has been said that: "One definition of insanity is to do the same thing, the same way, over and over and over again, each time expecting to achieve a different result."
Therefore, we must either CHANGE the way we live, or we bind our future to our past as if with CHAINS.
"I do not consider myself to be better than anyone else.  But I do believe in exercising my right to not stay stupid."

David W. Kemper, Author
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