Posted on 06/20/2006 5:27:23 PM PDT by Man50D
Any private freepmail can be posted. Unless, of course, the rules are enforced differently for different posters.If you aren't pleased with the way this site is run, you might try another.
Yep.
We need to push this point.
Right now, the biggest beneficiary's of the income tax are the illegals - because they don't pay any.
With the FAIR TAX, they would be paying through the nose - right from dollar #1...and they won't get the prebate to offset the livable income level. (That would take a giant cut out of their income while putting millions of tax dollars from their pockets into the tax coffers)
Now that's what I call FAIR.
You aren't pleased with the way the site is run? What an admission.
I am pleased. The mods do a great job with adults. It's when immaturatity attacks FR that it becomes more difficult for them. What adult would guess that a group of posters would get together with a stated objective of getting another poster banned?
Time is not on your side.
So, about the illegal economy... and border adjustability, and individual income tax filing, and expat $, and illegal immigrants paying taxes, ....
I'd like to discuss the nrst with folks. The trolls, however, prevent that on this thread by moving it to Bloggers (yes, they have control over thread placement via posting obscene pics and abuses).
Beyond that, they harass posters to the extent that nobody wants to post. Of course, I do get questions and comments on FReepmail, but I'd like to be able to put the questions and comments in the forum. Isn't that what the forum is for?
IMO a good response from mods would be to delete inappropriate posts, warn/suspend/etc posters who transgress, and avoid moving the thread in response to abuses.
With the FAIR TAX, they would be paying through the nose - right from dollar #1.
Indeed. As they should IMO.
They get in state tuition (except in Georgia!) like they've paid tax to the state - they get medical care like they've helped support it, they get to use roads/infrastucture like they've paid, etc.
It's time they pay their FAIR share.
Huh? What makes you think I'm not pleased with the way this site is run? More FairTax logic...If you aren't pleased with the way this site is run, you might try another.You aren't pleased with the way the site is run? What an admission.
What adult would guess that a group of posters would get together with a stated objective of getting another poster banned?I wouldn't guess that. Has that happened?
"Isn't that what the forum is for? "
Well, not too many years ago it seemed like that, but now I don't really know. Let's hope so. You made a good point about capital being repatriated back into the US. When taxpayers decide to leave and stay away (AIR the number for a recent year was something like 370,000 taxpayers) it leaves the rest of us with having to pick up a disproportionately large tax load. Only when this capital is repatriated back into the US does it help those of us who remained behind. With the FairTax there will be several Trillion dollars coming back to be invested boosting the economy from that alone.
AA had some good info WRT expat $.... paging Action-America.
Now why would he try to pick a fight? Would he be provoking me in an attempt to get me banned???
Ignore him ... he's just kicking and screaming (like Rumplestilskin) and trying to pick a fight. Remember how Rumplestilskin turned out!OK, I will. Thanks for the advice.
And as he points out, the vast majority leaving are wealthy. Include in the analysis the millions immigrating illegally-the overwhelming majority of which are poor.
Rich people leaving plus poor people coming....
Doesn't sound good.
The fair tax would reverse this. Wealthy people would come (or at least bring their money) and illegals would be discouraged from coming because they would have to pay taxes (at a higher rate than legal citizens).
The numbers in percentage against the whole may be small, but of the group that make the economic engine go it is devastating.
Good point. So we have bright, capable, wealthy people leaving and average (or worse), poor, unskilled people coming in illegally.
Not such a good formula for success. I wonder how much better off we'd be as a nation to reverse this trend?
" Perhaps your name is Rumpelstiltskin?"
" The devil has told you that! The devil has told you that!" cried the little man, and in his anger he plunged his right foot so deep into the earth that his whole leg went in, and then in rage he pulled at his left leg so hard with both hands that he tore himself in two. "
Clearly that'd be a no-no. And the really great thing is that the gold the daughter spun isn't taxable under the FairTax since it represents income. Isn't that wonderful?
ROTFL ;O)
Clearly that'd be a no-no. And the really great thing is that the gold the daughter spun isn't taxable under the FairTax since it represents income. Isn't that wonderful?Wow! I can spend all that gold and not pay any tax under the FairTax!! It sounds like a fairytale...
What if she chooses to leave the gold to an heir?
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