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To: music is math

I used to be a fan of the national sales tax and actually still have the sticker on my truck but... I studied deeper and finally had to admit that it is the means by which "the powers that be" will finally have the micro managing control over econemies that they always wanted. Don't worry I don't hear any black helecopters, ha. It's just the basic outgrowth of trying to manage massive economies based on a floating currency, with intrest rate manipulation and debt volume to fill the "valleys" in the chart.

We have been on this system for 70 or 80 years now and it was doomed from the beginning unless we would have had super computers in 1930.

Allas, egos got the better of the money men in that era way before they could realize the monumental task they had set ahead of themselves by trading the gold standard for a managed currency. Fast forward to today and nothing is new under the sun... egos win again and a new batch of "mere mortals" think that if we only had the data and taxing authority that would be supplied by a National sales tax, we would finally be able to excersize enough control on the econemy to ensure prosperity forever and avoid the train wreck of paper econemies.

Sorry for being long winded (I dable in economic studies). I'll put my suggestions in another post. don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of revamping of course.


8 posted on 05/12/2005 1:43:47 AM PDT by Clarion (Restrict liberty for security?... The only security IS liberty!)
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To: Clarion
There is nothing in H.R. 25 which grants the authority to track purchases. Pre-bates are granted, en masse, to all who hold a valid SSN. The blanket grant of the pre-bate eliminates the need to track purchases or to make exceptions for certain 'necessities.' The data collected under the FairTax will be MINISCULE compared to the data collected today under the income tax.
54 posted on 05/12/2005 3:07:32 PM PDT by Conservative Goddess (Politiae legibus, non leges politiis, adaptandae)
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To: Clarion
Sorry for being long winded (I dable in economic studies). I'll put my suggestions in another post. don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of revamping of course.

I don't dabble in nothing. I drool a lot. Old age.
I just want to get rid of the IRS.

I love HR25.

118 posted on 05/13/2005 1:32:28 PM PDT by carenot (Proud member of The Flying Skillet Brigade)
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