[TomServo]

"Activism/Chapters - Activism, protests, news and business of Free Republic Chapters. Freep this poll should be placed in vanity. General news stories about activism should be place in news. After action reports from Freeps are allowed here."

[johnmilken]

A "progressive national retail sales tax"?

How could it be progressive? Rich people will pay more for goods than poor people? How would that be set up?

[sr4402]

They should have asked how much per month you are paying into Social Security. Then shows how much tax. The trouble it that most folks ignore Social Security and will see the high figure.

Better for them to compare to the existing tax system sans social security.

[Logical me]

I reply to this before. I don't need to take your stupid fairtax table. You obviously forgot the millions of retired people who will not get the break of no form of withholding. Therefore, once quoted, that a 23% increase in a fair tax system would not help the "out of work" and the retired. I'm so tired of this crap I could scream.

[cvq3842]

Interesting . . .

[Logical me]

I'm still steamed. Where do we get these brain dead politicians. Contact all your Senators and explain that the retired and quite often "out of work" will be hurt. Also forgot to mention that hundreds of thousands of workers opp ed out of SS and built their own retirement. I could go on but I think that is enough to start a momentum to kill this stupid approach to correcting the income tax. Any better thinkers out there? We need you badly.

[Terabitten]

ping for later

[marblehead17]

ping

[ancient_geezer]

A Taxreform bump for you all.

If you would like to be added to this ping list let me know.

John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25), offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright, and provide a IRS free replacement in the form of a retail sales tax:

H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer for additional information:

• http://www.fairtax.org,
• http://www.myfairtax.org/,
• http://www.salestax.org,
• http://www.geocities.com/cmcofer/ftax.html

[Wolfie]

Now go back and cacluate what you'll pay when we have both an NRST and an Income Tax.

[Rakkasan1]

[ex-snook]

Forget the income tax rate only. What will be the comparison of sales tax rates? Will the cost of living, tax included, go up or down?

[Lando Lincoln]

For later.

Lando

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Um the 7.6% that employers pay should come to the employee. It is a cost of employment to the employer. Otherwise that 7.6% pure profit to the employer.

[I got the rope]

Cool...I get to pay more taxes.

[LonePalm]

Bump for later.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)