Posted on 01/31/2005 7:12:16 AM PST by bmweezer
I did finally acquire a Queens library card this past year, as I was working on Paul's congressional campaign, because a large chunk of his district is located in neighborhoods like Maspeth, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, Woodside, etc., etc...
I have to admit, though, they have a much better selection there-at least among local branches-than their counterpart in my borough.
Go to Grand Army Plaza...........best Library in all of NYC.....at least it was the last time I was there!!!!
:0)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
Good corrctions from both... they balance out -- evasion isn't necessary as it already exists and is not captured in GNP,The issue isn't the "underground economy," it's the increase is sales tax evasion/avoidance above current levels. We are not talking about drug deals, we are talking about business collecting the tax and not remitting it, people purchasing for private use with a business certificate, buying offshore, (the FairTaxer's favorite) buying used, etc. It is the increase in these types of activities that will grow with a extremely high NRST and will erode the FairTax base. This increase is not accounted for in the proposed rate.
Yep.
If you used what I said out of context to post that picture and comment, it was pretty funny.
But you did take it out of context.
I posted that as one option. I also posted that you will have a lot more money at your disposal. That means that it's YOUR FREAKING CHOICE.
FreedomCalls either has a very funny sense of humor or limited ability to read and comprehend and appreciate what happens when freedom calls.
Rare that I stick up for YN, but he's right, you're wrong. The 23% NRST is tax-inclusive, i.e., 23% of the total price, including tax, is tax. That is, if T is the tax and P is the pre-tax price, you have:
Ri = T / ( P + T )
The tax-inclusive method is used in the NRST bill to compare it to income taxes in an equitable manner. For example, if my effective income + payroll tax rate was 23%, in order to buy a $77 item, I'd have to earn $100, pay $23 in tax, and then have $77 left over. Under the NRST, if I spend $100, I pay $23 in tax and $77 for the item, exclusive of tax.
Now, the way a sate sales tax is expressed uses a tax-exclusive method. E.g. a 5% sales tax on a $100 item yields a total bill of $105, $5 of which is tax. (The corresponding tax-inclusive rate is 5 / 105 = .0476)
Using the same variables as before, the tax exclusive rate is expressed as:
Re = T / P
So, a 23% inclusive rate equals a 29.87% tax-exclusive rate. (Proof for the reader: plug 0.23 in for Ri and then solve simultaneous equations to get Re.)
Two of us are fakes.
Rare that I stick up for YN, but he's right, you're wrong.Wow, I'm speechless...
There are three of me standing here, two are imposters!
Find out who on To Tell the Truth!
Simpler is definitely better in terms of complying with tax laws...........
I'm not discounting his concerns about decline in consumerism, I'm just using my own personal circumstances to give an opposing point of view on his premise.
Fear of losing their jobs keeps them in line, nothing in the law does.
For someone who's constantly harping about published studies, I assume you have something handy that shows that evasion will be higher under a sales tax than it is under an income tax?
Or are you just making your own unfounded assertion and passing it off as fact?
Even a broken clock, ya know. ;)
I fully understand that and I'm not sure I would do that. I'm not as much of a privacy advocate as William Safire is. I would see it as a moral difference, though, to have me compelled to provide certain information as a matter of law the way I am today, and to be required to provide certain information if I wish to receive a benefit. No matter how big that benefit, the choice is mine.
Shalom.
I don't know when it occurred, perhaps it was when they installed a mini-Starbucks in the lobby, but for some reason, I eventually lost my enthusiasm for browsing through its book collection.
I started utilizing the main branch of the New York system-in midtown-when I was matriculating at Brooklyn College.
Surprisingly, I think that BC's recently constructed library probably has the most comprehensive, voluminous collection out of all the branches-at least, the ones that I've been to-in NYC.
So maybe you can show me where the other >$1.5 trillion in costs savings is going to come from.
I'm not sure what you mean by the FairTax "base". Do you mean the companies which would have to collect the FairTax from it's customers?
Got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!
Do you support our current tax system?
Why do you oppose the FairTax? I've seen snide remarks, but no substantive argument.
Change your screen name and tag line.
You really appear hypocritical when you post such anti liberty and anti freedom babble.
OK, Mr. Kotter.
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