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To: Hostage
"they will see that the FairTax is vastly superior IN EVERY RESPECT to what exists today"

Not true. The transition from one to the other is not set up to be done in a "fair" way. Savings made before teh transition and spent after get double taxed, BIG TIME.

11 posted on 01/23/2011 7:49:13 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Total unadulterated bullcrap!

When current after-taxed savings are spent they get taxed again by the federal taxes currently embedded into consumer pricing from the Income Tax Code.

Those embedded taxes have been estimated again and again independently to be on the average 22%. That means a saver’s spendings are taxed twice, once by the income tax and once by the federal tax burden embedded into retail pricing.

The only difference under the FairTax is that those embedded taxes are no longer hidden, they are transparent for all to see.

Just because you choose to ignore that which you do not see but which clearly exists is not a valid objection against the FairTax.

The FairTax is SUPERIOR for all savings made after its enactment because it taxes savings ONCE as opposed to taxing savings twice under the current Income tax code and by the accumulating, passing on and embedding into prices the federal tax burden to consumers.


56 posted on 01/23/2011 10:11:22 AM PST by Hostage
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