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To: pigdog
" You'd help yourself a great deal just by reading the first 3 or 4 pages of the report and then the paragraph headed "3.3 Tax-Inclusive versus Tax-Exclusive Rates"

You would help yourself in selling your idea if you would $hit-can all the 'tax inclusive" double talk and put out information that wasn't designed to confuse people that wont know it means it will be a 30% tax, not a 23% tax.

I've read the stupid plan. I know what it means.
77 posted on 10/19/2006 8:09:12 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: Beagle8U
"I've read the stupid plan. I know what it means."

Obviously you don't; here's what the paper clerifies for you:

"3.3 Tax-Inclusive versus Tax-Exclusive Rates

At this point, we need to clarify the difference between tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive sales tax rates. An example will help. Suppose a worker named Joe earns $125 and spends all of his earnings. Suppose further that he pays a tax of $25. If he were subject to an income tax, he would earn $125 before tax, $100 after tax and spend $100 at the store. Thus, he would need to earn $125 to spend $100. In the case of a sales tax, he would earn $125 and pay $125 at the store. Of the $125 paid by Joe at the store, the store would remit $25 in sales tax, meaning that Joe ends up with just $100 worth of goods and services.

We may think of the tax rate as $25/$100 = 25%, which is the tax-exclusive rate (te); alternatively we may report the tax rate as $25/$125 = 20%, which is the tax-inclusive rate (ti). The 23% FairTax rate set out in H.R. 25/S. 25 is a tax-inclusive rate, as is the current personal income tax, whereas most state-level sales taxes are quoted on a tax-exclusive basis. For ease of comparison, we report tax rates in both ways in Table 5."


281 posted on 10/21/2006 8:14:34 AM PDT by pigdog
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