[Your Nightmare]

have you bothered to figure out how much you pay in taxes now?

Yes.

Have you bothered to add up your income tax, the embedded taxes you pay, the salary hit you have b/c your employer pays half of your SS tax and a bunch of payroll taxes for each person that they have working for them?

Am I taking a salary hit because of my employer's half of the SS tax or is embedding them in the price of goods I pay?

Do you know what you pay, what this country pays, in compliance cost each year?

I know what I pay ($29.95 for TurboTax plus an hour and a half in time). We can only estimate what the country pays.

Do you understand the 20,000 page tax code that we now have?

No. Why would I want to?

What is the cost to this country and to you to have Washington full of lobbyists and special interests groups?

I don't know, but do you really think they would all just pack up and go home if the FairTax were passed?

Have you bothered to read HR25/S25?

I've read H.R. 25 from the 108th several times. The related Senate bill for the 108th was S. 1493. I haven't been able to read H.R. 25 or S. 25 for the 109th because they haven't posted it yet.

[socialismisinsidious]

"Yes."
How could you when you can't even answer the other questions?

"Am I taking a salary hit because of my employer's half of the SS tax or is embedding them in the price of goods I pay?"
Are you really that naive? It is both....easier to swallow that way and less obvious. Plus this gives the employer options to getting his tax hit back.

"I know what I pay ($29.95 for TurboTax plus an hour and a half in time)..." Have to wonder how much you are losing by not itemizing but I digress...there are other cost besides money; maybe some day you will be audited and then you can find out first hand.


"No. Why would I want to?" sigh. the point is--you are playing a game that you can't even figure out the rules to.


"I don't know, but do you really think they would all just pack up and go home if the FairTax were passed?" Many would...Why do you think that they are there in the first place?--to get around/negotiate for loopholes and breaks from our oppressive tax system....it is all about money.

"I've read H.R. 25 from the 108th several times. The related Senate bill for the 108th was S. 1493. I haven't been able to read H.R. 25 or S. 25 for the 109th because they haven't posted it yet." So you hate it but aren't specific about which parts of the bill you hate and don't seem to have a solution to fix those parts or to fix the system in general......that's helpful. Have to wonder who you work for?