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Posted on 09/07/2005 5:15:28 PM PDT by Man50D
NEW YORK (Money magazine) - If you don't care much for talk radio, or you don't live in the South, the name Neal Boortz might not ring a bell.
But pay attention: Around 4 million people nationwide catch his radio show. It's No. 1 in Boortz's home market of Atlanta and ranks first or second in numerous smaller cities in red states.
His 180-page polemic for radical tax reform, The FairTax Book, made its debut at No. 1 on the New York Times' bestseller list in August.
When Boortz came to Jacksonville for a book signing at a downtown hotel on a sticky, sweltering Thursday night last month, close to 1,000 people turned out for a chance to meet him -- and to bask in his rage at the Internal Revenue Service.
"How many of you want the federal government out of your paycheck?" asks Boortz from the hotel's ballroom stage. Wooo-hooo! roars the crowd. Boortz's wife Donna, standing at the back of the room, looks on in amazement.
"This is for taxes," she says. "This is not sex and violence we're talking about."
No kidding. Everybody likes a tax cut, but fundamental tax reform is one of those issues that's generally as boring as it is important. Who wants to waste an evening thinking about marginal rates? But the plan Boortz is selling is disarmingly simple: Just eliminate most federal taxes -- income tax, Social Security tax, corporate tax, what's left of the estate tax -- and replace them with a big, fat national sales tax.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
One more thing... You think Always Right might reconsider his position given the fact that he is on the same side as Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Jessie Jackson, and Al Sharpton to preserve the current Marxist Progressive tax code. One would think this should be a RED FLAG to anyone that considers theirself a conservative.
Certainly, but my posts had substance to them. Taxman posts are 100% personal attack BS with nothing to back it up. When I call someone I a lying SOB, I present the facts to back it up. Taxman calls me a liar and has no clue who I am and no basis for the attack.
Right. Anyone who does not drink your snake-oil koolaid drinking non-sense is Hillary. Sell your program on Honest analysis and stop lying about what the research says. You plan is to replace a progressive tax code with a progressive tax code with built in rebates which can grow with the whim of Congress. The fairtax will become every bit of a monster that the current system is in a matter of a few years. It is a major disruption of the economy for nothing. The real problem is spending. That is the beast that needs to be tamed.
Any legislation creating the FairTax (or anything along those lines) must include a provision that it will not have effect until that repeal, or else the politicians will stick us with both taxes, as sure as the sun rises in the east.
Oh please do so. You have called me a liar a dozen times and have yet to point out one example.
Indeed, I did ... and a good post it is. Doubt you'll ever hear from the Squirrels on the subject of an alternate tax plan - that's not what they're about at all as you seem to realize.
Their only raison d'etre is to attack the FairTax and its supporters since they're deathly afraid it will become the tax law of the land.
Notice how one of the posters even displays his lack of understanding of #195 by not realizing what embedded, cascading taxes are and the mechanism that thereby boosts prices. Talk about ignorance!!!
Anyone that has read the book knows your fool of it. So I am going to call you out on it...
Why do you like the Marxist Progressive tax code so much? how are you benefiting?
You ought to read the FAQ's on the fairytax website:
Is the FairTax progressive? Do the rich pay more and the poor pay less as a percentage of their spending?
Absolutely
No, but if the alternative is a 30% tax on purchases of goods and services, I say no thanks. The problem is way too much spending. You attack a symptom and do nothing about the problem.
Knock it off!
Isn't it amazing how many facts they have for a nonexistent, never tried national sales tax plan?
BTW, if you were rallying for a new tax would "Taxman" be your first choice of names?...Shows you how bright that bulb is.
No, it is 23% inclusive, 30% exclusive. So it is not me who is lying.
Anyone who is taxed at least 25% (Fed, State, FICA) on their pay check (most of us are unless you are making minimum wage) then you add the 7% sales tax well. That means you are currently paying 33%. That is higher than under the fair tax.First, 25% + 7% = 32%. Second, one is an inclusive rate and the other is an exclusive rate. You can't just add them together.
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