Implementing a "fairtax" without repealing the 16th amendment will leave us with federal income taxes PLUS the "fairtax."
Post # 10 the old 16th amendment argument again...
This is one of the flakiest arguments yet on not passing the FairTax. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that prohibits us from having both an income tax and a sales tax now. We are only a vote away from it, and the Congress, particularly the socialist spend masters, are gearing up for it even as we speak.
The ONLY THING that will save us from having both is to immediately cut off the head of the snake before the 16th and be repealed. That means, disbanding the IRS, its staff, its budget, its office space, every freaking withholding department within every business all across America, and doing it ASAP with one fell swoop!
The FairTax does that! Demolition of the IRS infrastructure for collecting an income tax is immediate within the FairTax, while House Res. #16 already in Congress which will repeal the 16th is voted on as a companion bill to HR 25. Try collecting an income tax when there is NO infrastructure in place to do so. It's what make FairTax imperative we act on it now.
If we don't congress will surely impliment a sales tax TOO, and with the IRS overseeing it, they will be in charge of the whole shebang and do what they want. A sales tax implimentation is so easy, as every retail register in America can simply use a computer mouse and change the tax rate in an instant and voila! There you have it.
Which would you rather have hanging over your head? The simple to implement sales tax on top of the income tax, or a sales tax with a threat of an income tax reactivation that would not only cause the wrath of GOD to come down on Congress but would cost them tons of money to rebuild to collect the damn thing. Remember it wouldn't just be congress and DC, it would be asking every freakin business in America to go back to payroll withholding departments, expenses, headaches, etc etc, and it would be asking all Americans to give up 100% of their paycheck in favor of the IRS taking a hunk of your hard earned dough yet again before you get it.
Do you really think that would happen, could happen, in America once the IRS and income taxes are gone? I don't think so!
Wake up people and smell the coffee. $23million has been spent over 10 years on FairTax to develop it into the most perfect piece of legislation, 110 pages of pure gold. Do you really think you can come up with a question or statement that their researchers over 10 years haven't already thought of and covered?
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