What issue destroyed the Democratic Party in the South. State's Rights.
All a solution like this does is keep a bloated federal government, it keeps the judges that rule to increase federal power, it increases pork projects, etc.
I hate sales taxes right now, but I am willing to deal with it because I know my money goes to help my own people, my state, my city.
I am not crazy about having to pay a 25 percent surcharge on an item just so a majority of that money can go to people in a state that I will never live in, people in a state I may never visit.
Now granted, it is amazing irony that income taxes from New York and all those Northeastern states are used to subsidize social services here in the South, but I don't believe that is right either.
Why do we need a bloated government, why do we need a Department of Education, or a Department of Agriculture, or the million departments we have right now.
Today, as we speak, the federal government will pay farmers not to grow crops, but they pay them what they would have gotten had they grown crops, to me, that is absolutely ridiculous.
I will admit, it was ridiculous for the federal government to pay 3 mil to restore a historic train station.
Now, had it been state money spent on an in-state project, a different situation.
What is so wrong with the concept of reducing the federal government to just the military (and law enforcement), and letting each state kick in revenue, however it wants to get it, to pay for national defense.
Why is it that we should substitute one system of financing a bloated government with another system of financing a bloated government.
Why should I have to pay a surcharge on every item I buy, see that surcharge and seethe at it, just so we can fund a school lunch program in a blue state.
Instead of finding new ways to fund big government, we should be trying to eliminate big government all together.
A tax bill though is not a spending bill - and none of the FairTax supporters I know support higher government spending (quite the opposite, in fact).
Before we can do much to accomplish spending reductions, though, we have to get the tax system into a method of operation where the costs of government are apparent to all - which the FairTax does. The SQL argument that the paystub is the same is no argument at all, since there are costs embedded into products that everyone pays that do not appear on the paystub - but they are real nonetheless.
In addition, the FairTax eliminates a number of other sorts of taxes as well - estate tax for example.
Wrong. I stopped reading here. It was values...God and country.