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National Retail Sales Tax - You gotta be kidding!
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| January 31, 2005
| Steve Pudlo
Posted on 01/31/2005 7:12:16 AM PST by bmweezer
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:12:16 AM PST
by
bmweezer
To: bmweezer
The NRST is a hell of a lot more fair than the income tax.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:14:03 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Sanford for President in '08!)
To: ancient_geezer
This guy lost me at the "pony up another 40% or so" line. How someone can be so misinformed about the topic they're writing about and expect to be taken seriously is beyond comprehension.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:14:55 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as Utopian planners wish)
To: RockinRight
Exactly, the writer failed to remember that he wouldn't be paying $10k to the government every year in income tax. It makes that $6,000 tax on a car a bit easier to accept.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:16:22 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: kevkrom
You've got that right. The author is an idiot.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:17:17 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(If only I used my evil genius for good !)
To: bmweezer
Who's gonna police the collectors to make sure they collect the right taxes from the right goods?
Its called the "Department of Revenue" and they've being doing it for quite some time now.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:17:27 AM PST
by
mike182d
To: bmweezer
It is clear from the article that the writer has not read, or at least understood, the Fair Tax Plan.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:17:54 AM PST
by
T.Smith
To: bmweezer
Absolutely right.
This would shift the tax burden to those living paycheck to paycheck.
To: bmweezer
The only problem with the fair tax is that I don't see the federal government seriously considering this option. With federal income tax, the projected income of the federal government is fairly predictable and relatively fixed while an income based upon consumer spending may vary.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:19:51 AM PST
by
mike182d
To: Conspiracy Guy
I can actually see both sides of this.
Sales taxes are regressive....and hurt those with lesser incomes far more than those higher up the economic scale.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:20:01 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Anti-smoker gnatzies...small minds buzzing in your business..............SWAT'EM)
To: bmweezer
Just because I have 500 dollars, doesn't mean that I have 700.
You might if you didn't work for the government until May every year.
Taxing productivity makes no sense to me.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:20:06 AM PST
by
itsamelman
(“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
To: bmweezer
This article is full of more logical fallacies than I care to begin to address, but I will point out the biggest.
The overall theme of this piece is not why the NRST is wrong, but that is has already become law and here are the consequences.
The author needs to go back to English Comp. 101 and start from scratch. The use of rhetorical questions does not mean you have mastered the art of rhetoric.
To: mike182d
With federal income tax, the projected income of the federal government is fairly predictable and relatively fixed while an income based upon consumer spending may vary. Actually, it's the opposite -- consumer spending is more predicatble than income.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:21:13 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as Utopian planners wish)
To: bmweezer
The NRST would be no more voluntary that the current system.
NRST is voluntary in that you can choose not to spend your money and choose to save it instead. The current Income Tax structed not only prevents this, but punishes you for trying to save your money.
By the way, food, clothing and medicine are excluded from the NRST that is being preposed.
To: T.Smith; ancient_geezer
I agree--those were pretty lame arguments the writer put forth. Shows he is arguing against a fiction he concocted in his own mind.
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY APPROVE of the NRST, and I support its implementation NOW!
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:21:38 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: RockinRight
The NRST is a hell of a lot more fair than the income tax.How do you know?
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:22:06 AM PST
by
lewislynn
(The meaning of life can be described in one word...Grandchildren)
To: Gabz
Perhaps...but don't most of the Fair Tax plans state that items like food and necessities are untaxed, therefore leveling the playing field?
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:22:34 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Sanford for President in '08!)
To: bmweezer
I'm cool to the NRST. A flat tax would be much better. Ten or 15 percent across the board and that's that.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:22:53 AM PST
by
rdb3
(The wife asked how I slept last night. I said, "How do I know? I was asleep!")
To: bmweezer; Badray; GeneralHavoc; SamInTheBurgh; smokeyb; adb102; Boxsford
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:23:19 AM PST
by
jim_g_goldwing
(Principled... Always Remain Principled)
To: Gabz
Sales taxes are regressive....and hurt those with lesser incomes far more than those higher up the economic scale. That's why the NRST includes what is called the Family Consumption Allowance, which is essentially the personal exemption/standard deduction of the income tax translated into sales tax terms. Everyone is eligible for it, and it actually makes the tax progressive, rather than regressive, based on the level of consumption.
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posted on
01/31/2005 7:23:37 AM PST
by
kevkrom
(If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as Utopian planners wish)
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