[Man50D]

At least the Flat Tax has an excellent history, but the fairtaxers insist on drowning out any and all information and or debate on it.

What post #20 doesn't realize is our current income tax began as a flat tax. The first tax ranged from merely 1% on the first $20,000 of taxable income and was only 7% on incomes above $500,000. When the income tax was passed in 1913 approximately only two percent of the population, counting both taxpayers and their dependents, was required to file returns. Today, more than 80% of the population is under the income tax and the oppressive tax code has expanded to 60,000+ pages. The Fair Tax provides people the freedom the Flat tax fails to provide because it abolishes the IRS.

Fair Taxers have been debating the Flat Tax for a considerable time. The problem for Flat Tax proponents is there are many more Fair Tax supporters consequently there will be more people speaking in favor of the Fair Tax. Their is very little support for the Flat tax as evident by the following facts:

H.R.25/S.25 have more cosponsors than the four Flat Tax related bills combined:

Freedom Flat Tax Act (H.R.1040) 5 Cosponsors
Fair Flat Tax Act of 2005(S.1927) No cosponsors
Fair Flat Tax Act of 2006 (H.R.5176) No cosponsors
Flat-Tax Act of 2005 (S.812) No cosponsors.

[xcamel]

As I said, 6 states, and 86 countries are very happy with it. There is no "fair tax", never been a "fair tax", and god forbid it ever becomes law, it most definitely wont be a "fair tax".

The fact we "had a flat tax" 80 odd years ago, is a rhetorical "dog that won't hunt", and simply proves we were way ahead of our time, but allowed the "gooberment" to corrupt it beyond insanity. That would most likely not be the case today.