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To: pigdog
And as has been noted several times on these threads, heir "Report" is merely a worthless static analysis that does not even address the FairTax, but a completely different idea of a "retail sales tax" not at all like the FairTax.

It does address the FairTax, but does also figure the sales tax in several different ways. No matter how you cut it, the National Retail Sales tax is a loser.

615 posted on 09/07/2006 8:23:53 AM PDT by lucysmom
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To: lucysmom
It does address the FairTax, but does also figure the sales tax in several different ways.

pigdog does have a point, the commission's retail tax was completely different than the fairtax proposal. The commission's retail tax was honest. Assuming the government can tax itself to raise revenues is not honest.

616 posted on 09/07/2006 8:29:30 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: lucysmom
"... It does address the FairTax ..."

Certainly it does not as anyone with any sense realizes by just looking at post #609 where I pointed to the nonsensical 41% tax rate. Moreover if you read the Report you'll see that they've assumed twice the level of evasion as present now without any reasoning as to why, they cut our 20% of the tax base by eliminating anything due to government, and other purposeful changes to define their own retail sales tax which is nothing at all like the FairTax. Your claiming it is representative of the FairTax (if that's what you're claiming) is truly nonsense. It's not even close so the numbers they offer are nothing but misinformation.

You'll even note that Rongie knows is isn't the FairTax (though of course he likes it too as a hitpiece).

619 posted on 09/07/2006 8:46:41 AM PDT by pigdog
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