Most people are less concerned about the eclectic and arcane bits and pieces about the mechanics of the NRST than they are about the elimination of the present system and the unease caused by it's enforcers, the IRS.
Rather, I get to keep the $1,000 I earned! I get to say how I spend it. OK, prices rise by 20%, or whatever. I lived through the Carter years, and I survived. We'll survive this.
Headline-grabbing idiots who want to protest the war, or whatever, by withholding a part of their tax payments (or maybe even all of it) should disappear. They'll have to find another vehicle for their intellectual self-sodomy. How can you possibly put a price on something like that???
Only a true-blue, full-blooded idiot would argue in defense of the present system - either that, or someone who has a big investment in maintenance of the status quo.
No thanks.
On the upside, perhaps after NRST has become the law of the land, we'll see Hollywood coming out with an exciting new TV series, "Magnum, CPA"!
And besides, if the law is truly revenue-neutral, from the government's point of view, what's the problem? They get their money; they can (try to) continue foisting off on us all of those pork barrel spend-a-thons they perpetually engage in. How can they not be happy? (We all know the answer to that one!) And how can concerned citizens like yourself not express satisfaction with the outcome?
It's win-win all around!!!
Get with the program.
CA
I am not defending the present system. I just insist that the proponents stop selling snakeoil. Prices will go up and I have to evaluate how that will impact the new housing businesses. Don't lie to me and tell me my prices are coming down when I can look at my expenses and know they are not. Trying to get fair taxers to admit the truth is like pulling teeth.
Only a true-blue, full-blooded idiot would argue in defense of the present system - either that, or someone who has a big investment in maintenance of the status quo.Only a true-blue, full-blooded idiot would equate the truth of one as defense of the other...