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The Fair Tax examined on day many filers ship off their returns
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| April 18, 2006
| VIC MacDONALD
Posted on 04/19/2006 4:20:35 AM PDT by Eaglewatcher
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Even the Irish have figured out that its a great idea!
To: Eaglewatcher
TANSTAAFT!(There aint no such thing as a FairTax)
Double digit taxation for single digit IQ's
*pinglist*
Freepmail me to get on or off.
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posted on
04/19/2006 4:33:44 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: xcamel
(There aint no such thing as a FairTax)
Double digit taxation for single digit IQ's.Brilliant refutation of the fair tax principle, hard to argue with logic like that.
To: deaconblues
We must overlook these periodic outbursts by xcamel. He has worked at the IRS so long his ganglial bundle -- in others it would be called a "brain" -- has atrophied to such a small size that he can barely post the latest CAT scan of his head without assistance from his live-in boyfriend.
Sad -- soo sad...
To: deaconblues; xcamel
xcamel,
How about addressing this question intellectually? Tell your fellow Freepers why the current system is superior to the fairtax? If you don't like the current system, tell us what system you would recommend.
Also,
Tell us why more than half of all taxpayers have to pay taxpreps to prepare their tax returns.
Tell us why after the tax reform act of 1986 that politicians have loaded up the tax code with more loopholes, deductions and exemptions, making it more complicated.
Tell us why it is better tax policy to tax productive behavior than to tax consumption.
Tell us why taxpayers still go offshore with their money even when the top tax rate was reduced to 35%.
Tell us why the AMT makes sense.
Please tell us why.
To: xcamel
fairtax details at
www.fairtax.org
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
You forgot to mention the EITC.
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posted on
04/19/2006 6:15:50 AM PDT
by
Imgr8t
To: Eaglewatcher
I favor the fair tax...but not without repealing the 16th ammendment. But in all honesty..it falls under the I'll believe it when I see it. I dont think it will ever happen.
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posted on
04/19/2006 6:19:02 AM PDT
by
Prysson
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
Because the "fairtax" is created purely out of emotion (rage), not out of any kind of intelligent or thoughtful analysis of the problem. Not withstanding anyone expressing negative opinions of it gets assailed with a barrage of intense personal attacks.
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posted on
04/19/2006 7:03:30 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: xcamel
xcamel,
You are entitled to your opinion. I would caution anyone to attack you personally. However, how can you argue against something without expressing specifics?
To: xcamel
Nonsensse, xc, (and that's not a "personal attack" let alone an "intense" one).
The FairTax is the most intensively- and thoroughly-economically-studied tax bill ever submitted to Congress. It is the result of knowledge and reasondable thinking, not rage or emotion.
It is the attacks of the Status Quo Lovers that qualify under those categories.
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posted on
05/02/2006 10:33:28 AM PDT
by
pigdog
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: Taxman; ancient_geezer; Principled; EternalVigilance; rwrcpa1; phil_will1; kevkrom; n-tres-ted; ...
Aren't you the one whining about "intense personal attacks" that (supposedly) the FairTax supporters do???
Guess you just can't restrain yourself, can you???
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posted on
05/02/2006 11:49:45 AM PDT
by
pigdog
To: Eaglewatcher
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posted on
05/02/2006 11:55:45 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
To: xcamel
Fair tax. Still a tax. But better than a Flat Tax and better than the mess we have now.
And yes Francis, you are ALREADY paying double digit tax rates. If you haven't figured that out, then you really do have a single digit IQ.
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posted on
05/02/2006 11:57:21 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
To: Dead Corpse
Even God only asks for 10%, what's your excuse?
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posted on
05/02/2006 12:00:06 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: xcamel
What is your plan?
Is the bill already in Congress?
What's the bill number?
Who sponsored it? How many cosponsors?
What's the rate? What and who are the tax base?
Will it capture taxes on illicit income?
Will it rid us of the IRS as we know it?
Will it treat all people equally?
Will it be border adjustable so that we can be competative overseas?
Will it be a visible tax, that is, transparent and not hidden?
Will your plan attract manufacturers from overseas to open plants here?
Can you answer any of these questions?
Do you even have a plan other than the status quo that you seem to love? Or are you just full of Shiite?
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posted on
05/02/2006 12:11:27 PM PDT
by
Badray
(The Dems WILL eat your children. Trouble is, the RINOs are preheating the oven for them.)
To: xcamel
*pinglist*Freepmail me to get on or off.
I noticed you didn't ping your list. Is it as empty as your universe of alternatives to the current tax code?
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posted on
05/02/2006 12:25:27 PM PDT
by
groanup
(Shred for Ian)
To: xcamel
What's yours? Over all taxation rate from all the current cumulative taxes is well over 40%.
Flat tax only flattens the Income tax and leave the rest of them in place.
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posted on
05/02/2006 1:47:46 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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