[Final Authority]

WRT 250, see, you are not arguing the point correctly based on the original argument offered by me, that is, that a sales tax on an income tax is broadening the tax base. You and the other farttaxers assume (and you know what that is) that the income tax will be eradicated when a sales tax is imposed. On the contrary, the income tax will always be a part of the tax base, adding more to the tax base just means the government will have an easier time confiscating property.

Again, I have to inform the uninformed. There is not enough time in the day to straighten you and the other farttaxers out.

Your entire premise of tax utopia is based on the false presumption that if a tax reform bill is argued in congress and the central issue is whether or not to have a sales tax, that congress will see fit to eliminate the income tax first before imposing a sales tax. I think you really need to see a doctor to treat your delusional thoughts.

[Principled]

...the income tax will be eradicated when a sales tax is imposed...

My God! You finally get it!!!

[phil_will1]

"Your entire premise of tax utopia is based on the false presumption that if a tax reform bill is argued in congress and the central issue is whether or not to have a sales tax, that congress will see fit to eliminate the income tax first before imposing a sales tax. I think you really need to see a doctor to treat your delusional thoughts."

It is not a delusion nor a presumption - IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BILL. The income tax is not eliminated BEFORE the sales tax is implemented; they both happen concurrently. The bill is revenue neutral; leaving the income tax in place while adding the sales tax would result in a TAX INCREASE. Revenue neutrality is a requirement by President Bush and the FairTax has been revenue neutral since inception.

[pigdog]

Wrong (again) Finial. The elimination of the income tax with the passage of the FairTax is not an assumption - it's an integral part of the bill. Just like the destruction of income tax records and defunding the IRS.

It is YOU making the unwarranted assumption.

There will be no Congressional support for including the income tax as part of the FairTax bill. That would require a complete rewriting of the bill ,,, and that ain't gonna happen.

Suggest you read the bill since you have never done so. Congress has no need to eliminate the IT first, that is done by passage of the FairTax bill in present form. But I thought you knew that since you claim to have read it years ago ... must have slipped you mind, eh?

It's amazing how you SQL guys fight to retain our present wonderful system that penalizes not only individual taxpayers but exporting business as well. Of course, none of you care about that, do you??? Or America either I would guess judging from the inane comments.