The infrastructure is in place. Today, most states have an income tax; the feds do much of the bookkeeping. Abolish the IRS, and there's your pool of bean-counters -- they will go to work for the states, which will then assume their salaries.As near as I can see by your sign in date and since you're guessing (or wishing) at what the Fairatx is, between the 2 of us you are the new one to the Fairtax.
You didn't read the testimony from the Texas tax collector and you haven't read the bill...when you have, let me know.
If and when the time comes who do you think will be listened to about their needs, state tax collectors or you?
Me. I'm the one toting the freight. I'm the one paying them.
One of many, of course, Point is, it is taxpayers -- not tax collectors -- who pay the piper and call the tune.
You didn't read the testimony from the Texas tax collector
You need to leave my house right now, or you might get shot.
If you are not in my house, I can't imagine how you know what I have and have not read.
I read the deputy assistant deputy sub-comptroller's testimony from top to bottom, I did not find it convincing. I'm catching a whiff of elitisim in my nostrils; "If you disagree you can't see or don't understand."
I read it. I understood it. I grokked its fullness. I disagreed.
Who am I to disagree? Just a mere citizen. I have no more weight than the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, the doctor, the lawyer, or the Indian chief. I'm just a citizen. ANd last I head, we still ran the joint.
I ask neither your approval nor your permission. Neither is yours or the Texas Comptroller's to give or deny.