Of course! We've been fighting tooth and nail against needless complexity and bad tax policy for 8-10 years now.
Interestingly, we're also spending time defending the clear choice as a replacement to our income tax (which is a mess of needless complexity and bad tax policy) from misrepresentative and misleading attacks by some income tax lovers... you know, the kind that just attack the proposed replacement without offering anything better...
Kinda sounds like the Dem policy on - everything.
Principled wrote:Well, you haven't been very effective in that fight. Because during that time, a lot of complexity was added to the tax code.
Of course! We've been fighting tooth and nail against needless complexity and bad tax policy for 8-10 years now.
Principled wrote:Actually, the Dems are very effective at what they do. I don't like what they do, but they are effective. When they have the power, the move things in their direction as much as they can. When the power is split, they scale back, but they still get something of what they want. And when they are out of power, they obstruct.
Kinda sounds like the Dem policy on - everything.
By comparison, Republicans give Dems most of they want when they are out of power, they give Dems more of the Dem agenda than they get in return when power is shared, and they are stymied by the Dem obstruction when the Republicans are technically in power.
The big problem is that the Republicans always want more power and more political capital so they can pass bigger and bigger plans and solutions. They don't get the whole ball of wax, so they end up with nothing. And they tell the electorate, if you just elect more of us, we could do something.
On the other hand, Dems do what they can when they can and don't try to overstep what is possible. So they are more effective.
Fair tax supporters often say things like, "I'll support the bill as it's written now, but I won't support it if it is changed." In reality, that means, "Forget it, I won't support it at all." Because the reality is that it will be changed before it passes, or it will never pass.
Check my post 782 here, there's a few starter suggestions for some things that can be done to move in the right direction.
And even if doing away with withholding isn't politically feasible, maybe sending a monthly or quarterly statement of taxes paid to each taxpayer is feasible. That would somewhat raise awareness of the cost of taxes today, and it would estabilish a mechanism for contacting every taxpayer periodically with personalized information, a key element of the rebate for the so called "fair tax."