Thomas Massie says he loves teenage Boy Scout's policy proposal: Zero tax for workers younger than 18

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., noted that a Boy Scout projected a argumentation of not taxing workers younger than property 18.

The congressman from the Bluegrass State listed respective reasons wherefore helium loves the idea.

"A 15 yr aged Boy Scout moving connected his merit badge conscionable sent maine this idea: No taxes connected workers nether 18 yrs old. I emotion it because: 1. They request acquisition to prime a assemblage large 2. They request to make a enactment ethic 3. The system needs much workers 4. They don’t get to vote," Massie wrote successful a station connected X.

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Someone responded to the lawmaker, suggesting that youths "don’t marque capable wealth for the astir portion and get it backmost erstwhile they record taxes. It is simply a bully acquisition connected however to record taxes and gives them a accidental to get a return," the idiosyncratic opined.

Massie replied, "Sounds similar conditioning to beryllium sheeple. Hard pass."

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., indicated that precocious minimum wages container young radical retired of the occupation market.

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"So galore of our younker person mislaid the accidental to participate the workforce owed to precocious minimum wage requirements. High taxes, insurance, and paid permission requirements are a fewer of galore issues arsenic well. Small concern owners are incapable to put successful first-time workers oregon supply them with skills grooming for their future," she tweeted.

"Great points!" Massie replied.

He has antecedently suggested that the U.S. should nix the national income taxation entirely.

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"The national income taxation was unconstitutional for astir of our [country's] existence. The founders of this state would person ne'er agreed to it. We should repeal it," helium tweeted successful February 2024.

Massie has besides spoken retired against foreign aid.

"My presumption of ‘no overseas aid’ mightiness dependable utmost to some, but it’s acold much utmost to unit aboriginal generations of Americans into indentured servitude to our overseas creditors," helium noted successful a 2023 post.