More stuff and nonsense. Actually Teddy boy will oppose the FairTax once it gets going in the Senate. The Democrats are not dumb despite the fact they are sneaky. Several Dem Senators have already stated this opposition (I have a letter in front of me now from one to that effect) and they certainly intend to make a partisan battle out of it. The prebate is not subsistence despite what you think.
pigdog,
No one on this end would disagree with you that socialists like Kennedy would oppose your tax plan. We agree on this point in full! And why? Because existing income taxation is the brainchild of socialists and Marxists and greeted with open arms by them, and is the cornerstone from which they operate___ from each according to their ability to each according to their needs ___which is carried out via income taxation___ the redistribution of wealth!
And so, Sen. Ted Socialist Kennedy and his underlings will fight tooth and nail against the repeal of the 16th Amendment and the loss of the power to calculate a tax from profits, gains and income used to redistribute wealth to remain in power. But if income taxation should be abolished, as your plan gives lip service to, I can assure you our socialists domestic enemies in Congress will greet your family consumption allowance with open arms, which will be used to keep themselves in power by promising to increase that allowance when election time nears, just as is now done with social security, aid to families with dependent children, Pell Grants, Kiddy Care, and you name the item from the available shopping list created by our socialist domestic enemies in Congress. Are you still in self denial?
If you are sincere in your efforts, then remove defects in you plan when they are pointed out to you, and don‘t pretend such defects are not as glaring as they really are!
And, as to your assertion that the family consumption allowance is not a form of subsistence, I suggest you attempt to look in the mirror tonight and make that statement to yourself, out loud, and without frowning at yourself.
Sincerely,
JWK
___ with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities__ Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
Such tripe!! Don't start tring to drag in the Communist Manifesto and the writings of K. Marx as some sort of argument.
You should surely believe that I and many other FairTax supporters on these threads are sincere in our efforts - and also that what you perceive as "defects" we certainly see as nothing of the sort. Nor have you been able to show them to be no matter how overheated a batch of rhetoric you use.
The prebate is certainly not a subsistence handout since it goes to each family and is only a way to pay the FairTax for low income families up to a certain point - but all families that qualify and apply get it. I doubt that Bill Gates needs it or quite a few of us, but it does prevent having the sales tax be terribly regressive on low income families. You can like that or not, but it does serve a very good purpose in the bill. I certainly do not "frown" when I talk to anyone (including myself in the mirror) when mentioning the prebate because of its benefits.