Get rid of IRS. No more worrying about people being paid under the table. Illegals will be paying tax. GET RID OF IRS. Businesses thrive. Simplify life. Keep your check. The more crap you buy the more tax you pay
the fair tax isn’t fair. flat tax on all income
I still support the fair tax, even if it hasn’t come up for awhile as a topic here.
What’s a fair tax? Isn’t that like a clean turd or an honest liar? Taxes by definition aren’t “fair” in that they make some people pay for the benefits to others. It isn’t how taxes are collected that is the crux of the problem, IT’S HOW THEY’RE SPENT!
Fair tax.
Hubby and I prefer the flat tax. It is the most simple and most fair.
The discussions on getting rid of the income tax system are always amusing.
1. Ain’t gonna happen. A very large percentage of the practical power of Congress derives from its ability to make slight changes in the tax code and therefore favor or punish particular groups.
2. The proponents generally seem to fall prey to the peculiar delusion that the same funds will be generated, but everybody will pay less. That everybody will come out ahead. A little thought will show that with any method of raising revenue, if the amount generated is the same, then any change will result in some paying more and some less.
Liberals made the same claim about Obamacare. Everybody will pay less and get more than under the previous system. We all know how well that worked out.
How in the world can we talk with a straight face about utterly remodeling American society, which is what elimination of the income tax would entail, when we can’t even elect a Congress and President? Any such dramatic change would require a significant super-majority, in practical if not constitutional terms, as it should. And we can’t pull together a simple majority.
The whole thing reminds me of calls for a constitutional amendment whenever getting a law passed is “too hard,” ignoring that an amendment is at least 10x harder to get through than a simple law.
The proper and only method of moving forward is to change public sentiment, elect majorities and then super-majorities. Talk of drastic change without following this path is delusional.
Stop the invasion of the US through Texas first —
Until spending is cut in half, no tax will be fair, or will make anyone happy.
I agree, get rid of the IRS.
The fair tax is applied to purchases.
The flat tax is still an ‘income’ tax, and would still require the IRS.
I’m SO tired of hearing about the so-called “Fair Tax.” It is a dangerous fraud that keeps coming back like a bad Mexican dinner. You will NEVER get rid of some form of IRS, so grow up and get behind a flat tax!
Flat tax of 10% with no deductibles and no minimum. Everybody pays the same rate. No corporate tax.
Flat tax of 5%...
Texask9
Since Jul 9, 2014
Fair Tax will never fly becuase you’d have to repeal the 16th Amendment FIRST, or you’ll end up with an income tax and sales tax.
Flat Tax will never fly because you’ll never be able to apply the same tax rate to capital gains as you do earned income.
A poll tax on every man, woman, and child is the only truly “fair” tax. Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed in this country and should pay the same for that privilege by funding our government equally. Everyone with the same amount of “skin” in the game.
A fair tax is better, it would do much to restore our fourth amendment rights.
Burn all IRS offices to the ground.
The prebate is just another way for the gov't to continue meddling and nudging our behavior this way and that.
There will always be an Internal Revenue Service. The best you can hope for is that they are in your life less in the future than now. But probably not. With a sales tax, the push will continue to eliminate cash transactions so the government can be sure the tax is always paid.
It will be a matter of months after a FAIR tax starts before bills are introduced to lower the tax on medical supplies, or for the IRS to handle tax refunds on health care costs.
The best you can hope for is that government knows what you bought, but the government does not influence what you buy with either carrot or stick.
National sales tax means Feds get involved in every transaction. They’ll want exemptions and increases, so your purchase of soda will be checked against your health records finding risk factors causing personalized increased sales tax thereon.
I appreciate the fair tax concept. I just don’t believe it won’t be abused far beyond intentions.