You say you have a problem with the FairTax, but your problem seems to be really with legislators who will abuse any tax system. It is up to the voters to put a stop to it.
Having a transparent tax system would help, which is a good reason to like the FairTax. Under the FairTax voters and taxpayers would see how much the government takes with every purchase they make as contrasted to the hidden costs and forced compliance with other tax schemes. So, what don’t you like about the FairTax that is not a problem with other tax schemes and how does that relate to the topic of this thread?
“You say you have a problem with the FairTax, but your problem seems to be really with legislators who will abuse any tax system. It is up to the voters to put a stop to it.”
1. I have a problem with ALL tax systems.
2. This is what will happen-——
If the Fair Tax (or something like it) is passed: (1) the rates will continuously rise; (2) The electorate won’t stop it, nor turn congress out, because by that time the majority of the electorate will consist of alien residents who grew up on socialism or under other dictatorships and native born, college-brainwashed progressives.
(3) The government (sliding into Marxism as it now is) will begin creating special grocery outlets or depots where the “poor,” “underprivileged,” and minorities will not have to pay the “Fair” Tax; the rest of us will have to pay, and at a higher rate each month. These kinds of food depots for oils, grains, eggs, and many staples, were present in China (until about 1993), and they were also part of the Soviet system. This is also a way to control the movement of the population, just as the “secure driver licenses” in various states are intended to do.
“Having a transparent tax system would help, which is a good reason to like the Fair Tax.”
What I pay in taxes is perfectly transparent to me. I don’t understand the transparency argument. Do you mean that you don’t see each pay period how much government is taking from your pay check? It’s not transparent to you? Who doesn’t receive a stub with an income tax and FICA report on it?
” . . . how does that relate to the topic of this thread?
The topic of the thread is to teach a lesson, by using the Social Security System, how that once Government creates or adopts a program, it gets distorted, twisted, and abused.
The same will happen to the Fair Tax, and so I am using it as an illustration of a potential future tax scheme to which the same lesson should apply. That’s how it relates.
Think of ANY — ANY — bar none — tax scheme you can conceive, this federal government is going to distort it.