Everyone calls education an investment. And all I have to say is: It is an investment. I made some money on my college. As a matter of fact, all of the employment I have had since I got my Masters in English is because of that investment.
So all of my employment, all of my wages, are from that investment. So all of my wages are really capital gains. I no longer want to get taxed at 28%. I no longer want to have to pay any more than 15%.
I mean for the young punks with just a high school education, taxing them on their wages makes sense. After all, they had to learn everything on the job. But I made an investment. I expect there to be a profit from it. And that is the wages I now make.
Do you think the IRS would go for that? Or is it that my wages are not put through the mechanism of say "stock options" that I have to pay more than capital gains?
We all invest in ourselves. I guess we would have to incorporate ourselves, keep track of what we spend on ourselves, calling it investment: Food, clothing, soap, education. For us to claim our income as capital gains and not as taxable income.
I am sure someone else could make this a whole satire about eating the children of the poor. But I will leave that as an exercise to the reader.
In my mind, income is income. Tax it all.