Income Tax Vs. National Sales Tax

Income Tax vs National Sales Tax In United States, the citizens had to pay income tax and sales tax, not national sales tax. Each state has a different rate on sales tax, which a citizen has a pay a certain amount on the items that they pay. Income tax is the same in all states, which a citizen has to spend an amount of money base on how much they make from the job. All of these taxes will be spend to military equipments, aids to different programs and national debts. No one is ever satisfied with how the government is running. The problem comes up as people want to oppose the income tax. Then, how can the United States will be able to pay for the needs that income tax usually is for? The Internal Revenue Service has been announced that the …show more content…
Not everyone has to pay for the income tax. There are people who work and get paid very little. There are also people, like teenagers, who work part-time to earn some money for colleges. The question has been around is should these people pay for the high sales tax that they were not pay before and how could they pay when they work for so little amount of money. Many teenagers cannot afford to pay for the house rent, food and books. They will be the one who suffer the most if they go out and buy the things that they need. Education has been upgraded, where homeworks are on the tablet or printing papers for essay that must be typed. These teenagers could not afford to buy these expensive technology equipments to help themselves through colleges. Even in such a young age, they have to go to work and go to school at the same time so they could buy the things they need for school. If they are not being able to afford themselves a small printer, no one could expect for them to pay extra high tax fee. Because of the development of technology, there are students who got peer pressure and have to buy things to catch up with their friends. Would your heart hurt if you cannot give your child a certain amount of money for he or she could buy the stuff that your child need at school? Now, they could be suffering from hunger by paying those extra taxes that they could have 2 days meals …show more content…
Before, citizens always tried to seek for justice in the taxes. They proposed the ideas of having a higher tax rate for the rich people and lower tax rates for the middle class and lower class. If the government gets rid of income tax, it just benefits them more than benefits the middle class and lower class. They will pay the same amount of money on products like the rest of we do, and they even get more rich and can do a lot more stuffs than others who will be suffering from national sales tax. The citizens will not want this to happen, so there will be another proposal on taxing the upper class a higher sales tax than the middle class and lower class. The ideas will not be put into place because there is no way that a store could know whether the people are rich or poor. This would lead to another politic war over the line between rich and poor, and how the government will be able to split the taxes to fit both