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To: pigdog

You can look for them, I have discussed the revenue neutral calculations and asked questions there.

I have never brought up homes, or any of the other stuff shich I understand the FairTax opinion on these items.

Actually none of this other stuff matters unless prices at the retail level go down by enough to alow the FairTax to be added with no net effect. So that is where I am concentrating my study at the moment.

If prices don't nosedive by 20-25% within a month of the FairTax starting we'd be screwed.


305 posted on 08/16/2005 11:24:04 AM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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To: RobFromGa
Actually none of this other stuff matters unless prices at the retail level go down by enough to alow the FairTax to be added with no net effect. So that is where I am concentrating my study at the moment. If prices don't nosedive by 20-25% within a month of the FairTax starting we'd be screwed.

They won't and we will be. Your previous analysis of the impact on business is correct and even if you look at businesses with low labor costs the results are very similar.

314 posted on 08/16/2005 12:57:11 PM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: RobFromGa

Assuming, for the sake of your argument, that prices don't come down (not conceding, just making a point). Would you concede that consumers are going to have more money in their pockets from no withholding, or no tax deposits to make? Also, even YN, I believe, has said that prices might come down 10% or so (might have been someone else. Sorry in advance if that wasn't you, YN) How, then, are we going to be screwed? Prices coming down is just icing on the cake.


323 posted on 08/16/2005 2:06:36 PM PDT by rwrcpa1 (April 15. Let's make it just another day.)
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