A national sales tax will be the victim of the same kind of tinkering that the income tax is, so you solve nothing in the long term except for giving people a reason to do all their shopping at swap meets.
The fair tax folks are the same folks that push for open borders and free trade. To suggest that they will allow tariffs to go up since they don't mention them in their manifesto is the hight of either wishful thinking or downright dishonety.
The FairTax Folks have now position on tariffs other than they are another hidden tax.
Please show otherwise: Here is the AFFT web site, the folks who researched and authored the bill:
A national sales tax will be the victim of the same kind of tinkering that the income tax is,
And you figure a flat income tax is immune? ROFLMAO.
so you solve nothing in the long term except for giving people a reason to do all their shopping at swap meets.
More power to us. After all you can sell all the used goods you want with no NRST. As well as sell anything to other businesses with no NRST. Seems like an excellant way to go.
The driving force of the NRST is, afterall, to empower the citizen, not the government.
- "The income tax in effect makes us vassals to the government – the politicians decide how much income we can keep. No mere “reform” of this slave tax, such as flattening the rate, can correct its fundamental denial of control over our own money. Only the abolition of the income tax itself will restore the basic American principle that our income is both our own money and our own private business - not the government's."
- "Replacing the income tax with a national sales tax would rejuvenate independence and responsibility in our citizens. True economic liberty and moral revival go hand in hand."
- "A national sales tax would also put the American citizen back in control of national fiscal policy. The best way to curtail government spending is to cut taxes, because they can’t spend what they don’t get. But with a sales tax, we could deny funds to a spendthrift government – and give ourselves a tax cut – whenever we make the private choice to alter our spending and saving habits."
| "As a matter of fact, what the income tax does — and this is the debate that I think we always try to get into in order to let you and him fight, see — and the people of this country are led down a path where the actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government." . . . "The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system." "In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won‘t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation." |