To: pigdog; ancient_geezer
That's why so many politicians are going to have to be drug kicking and screaming to the table. Elected officials don't like to surrender power.
The simple solution is to remind the politicans that if the IRS is gone, the Clintons would not be able to use it as a weapon against said politicans.
To: Paul C. Jesup
12 posted on
09/22/2005 1:15:10 PM PDT by
pigdog
To: Paul C. Jesup
Brilliant. Fair Tax BUMP!
16 posted on
09/22/2005 1:59:51 PM PDT by
manic4organic
(We won. Get over it.)
To: Paul C. Jesup
"The simple solution is to remind the politicans that if the IRS is gone, the Clintons would not be able to use it as a weapon against said politicans."
As much as I dislike the Clintons, I have to point out that they hardly pioneered the practice of using the IRS as a political weapon. I am old enough to recall Nixon doing the same thing, so I know that it goes back at least that far.
19 posted on
09/22/2005 2:05:15 PM PDT by
phil_will1
(My posts are in no way limited or restricted by previously expressed SQL opinions)
To: Paul C. Jesup
I doubt that the IRS will actually be eliminated. It will probably morph from hassling individuals about their incomes to hassling businesses about their receipts. This will be a smaller group of people and depending upon how complicated the tax is for the retailers, may be rather difficult for them to cheat on.
What I like about this tax is that the companies that are going to take the biggest hit are those that import their products. The cost of production for them will be unchanged but their domestic competitors will have decreased cost of production.
36 posted on
09/22/2005 6:33:20 PM PDT by
Fraxinus
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