Now imagine a Fair Tax...sure people will be happy for the "raise" they get after their first pay check without the withholding. But they'll soon get used to it and take it for granted. On the other hand, imagine how they will freak out over having to pay over 20% tax on a $20,000+ automobile.
Here in Michigan I hear far more people grousing about the 2% increase in sales tax that took place a few years ago than I ever hear them complain about what they pay to the Federal Government.
No argument.
If we don’t get the socialists out of public K-12 education, we have lost the country.
“Here in Michigan I hear far more people grousing about the 2% increase in sales tax that took place a few years ago than I ever hear them complain about what they pay to the Federal Government.”
You are making a point that FairTax supporters have been making (and the founders before that) for some time now.
“It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, ‘in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four.’ If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
Alexander Hamilton in Federalist #21