Why NTU Supports the FairTax

National Taxpayers Union ^

[Man50D]

Why NTU Supports the FairTax:

The Fair Tax Act would promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Legislative Status:

The FairTax has been reintroduced for the 110th Congress. It is H.R. 25 in the House and S. 1025 in the Senate. NTU has endorsed the FairTax since 1998 and continues to work for its adoption

Benefits of the FairTax:

The FairTax plan brings fairness, transparency, and efficiency to our unfair, complex, and confusing Tax Code.

The FairTax rewards job creation, hard work, and individual responsibility. By doing away with payroll taxes, companies can afford to hire more employees and outsourcing looks less attractive. By taxing consumption instead of income, individuals are provided with a strong incentive to work hard because they keep more of what they earn. By taxing spending, the FairTax allows us to control how much tax we pay depending on our individual lifestyle choices.

The FairTax ensures that all Americans pay their fair share of taxes. The IRS currently admits to a 25 percent non-compliance rate with the Tax Code, often done unintentionally. By placing the tax at the point of sale, no individual or special interest group could evade taxes with the help of an expensive tax attorney or well-heeled lobbyist. Furthermore, we could stop making criminals out of ordinary Americans who prepare their tax returns incorrectly by mistake.

How the Plan Works:

The FairTax proposal is a comprehensive revenue plan that would eliminate most major federal income and payroll taxes, including personal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes.

[Man50D]

Fair Tax ping!

[Principled]

Thanks for posting the info Man50D -

It’s good information to have that the National Taxpayer’s Union supports this reform.

How many members does NTU have? Isn’t it millions?

Who heads up the NTU?

thanks-

~Prince

[Principled]

lots of good links at the ntu link you gave - thanks

[Principled]

http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=155

this is an interesting link - shows how many pay NO taxes under today’s system.

[Man50D]

How many members does NTU have? Isn’t it millions?

I don't know how many members in the NTU but your figure wouldn't surpise me.



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You're welcome.

[RC2]

Wanta bet Obama tries to kill it. His cronys couldn’t collect their welfare if it passed.

[Man50D]

this is an interesting link - shows how many pay NO taxes under today’s system.

It also show the number of "all returns" keeps increasing.

[Man50D]

Wanta bet Obama tries to kill it. His cronys couldn’t collect their welfare if it passed.

All the more reason to keep the grassroots effort growing by spreading the word.

[Principled]

Hussein will not like this bill. It is the antithesis of his political view [marxist.]

[K-oneTexas]

Excellent, thanks for posting. Anything less than radical tax reform will be useless. Radical tax reform coupled with spending reform will go a long way to curing the ills created by our Congress.

[Man50D]

Radical tax reform coupled with spending reform will go a long way to curing the ills created by our Congress.

It's a sad and scary commentary about Congress's abuse of power when disbursing power to the people as our founding fathers intended with the Constitution is considered radical.

[K-oneTexas]

Yes, somewhere along the way, our elected officials took their jobs "more seriously" than they took their constituents. What was meant to be a temporary job became a position for life, at least in some elected officials minds. The laws passed by Congress take on the same status as the Constitution and the law of the land. In doing so the meaning of the Constitution was expanded on from what the Founding Fathers wrote about.

Radical change may well be the only way to reclaim the original intent.

[Normal4me]

Look on the bright side, If Obama wins, no one will have any money or jobs so we won’t be able to pay taxes! YEA!!!

[lucysmom]

It's a sad and scary commentary about Congress's abuse of power when disbursing power to the people as our founding fathers intended with the Constitution is considered radical.

If you think the FairTax disburses power to the people (hmm - power to the people; where have I heard that before?) you are sadly delusional.

[Bryan24]

I just went a read through (well, scanned quickly through) the text of HR 25.

Will you be so kind as to point out the particular section where a constitutional amendment is submitted for approval and ratification by the states which would remove constitutional authority for the Federal Government to levy an income tax?

[lewislynn]

Will you be so kind as to point out the particular section where a constitutional amendment is submitted for approval and ratification by the states which would remove constitutional authority for the Federal Government to levy an income tax?

There isn't one. Nor is there a "sister" legislation that would be triggered with the passage of the Fairtax...To say there is would be a lie.

[Principled]

Bills cannot contain amendments to the constitution. The amendment you reference is HJR 45 IIRC - which IS an amendment.

If i misunderstand your question - apologies in advance.

[lewislynn]

It’s good information to have that the National Taxpayer’s Union supports this reform.

How many members does NTU have? Isn’t it millions?

And yet the Fairtax has how many?