I appreciate your indulgence, but you and I know that I don't need it. I am not an idiot and neither are you. The enemy here are the SQL's who have an agenda and are neither friends of conservatives nor logical opposition. We are indulged vs. a strange minority of lackadaisical people who don't share our resolve in removing the IRS. They are the "soft opposition of limited expectations". Some of them claim that they are opposed because the plan cannot ever be passed, some of them claim that the plan cannot work in its form. Some of them claim that the plan is flawed.
Well, fine. Please show us what we should do. Please give us an alternative. Please be forthright and give us an alternative. We're all ears!!!!!!!!
If the fair tax is such a 'conservative' principle, why haven't many top conservatives embraced the idea? Linder, Boortz, Keyes hardly are considered the icons of the conservative movement. I can go back through old fair tax threads and pull out the names of hundreds of freepers who don't like the idea and are no enemy of conservatives. Many have privately e-mailed and thanked me for fighting you guys. Most don't want to put up with the condescending insultive nature of fair taxer posters. The conservative answer to this problem is not coming up with a supportively more efficient way for the government to collect taxes. THE conservative answer is to cut spending and reduce the amount of taxes that need to be collective. The idea that a 30% sales tax is a pillar of conservative thinking is not only arrogance on your part, it is simply wrong. Our founding fathers would roll over in their graves if our country started adding a 30% tax to things like rents and services. There is absolutely nothing conservative about that. And there is nothing conservative about using misleading arguments to promote your cause. That my friend is a 100% liberal tactic, and I am glad to see Boortz has at least stopped one of the most aggrieves misrepresentation.
Of course this is just the 'inane' rantings of a 'Squirrel' who is the 'enemy of conservatives'.
I see this is considered cynicism. Perhaps it is, but I see it as one of the most accurate and profound statements made so far. For others though it has the unfortunately quality of common sense.
Once again, I think this points out a schism in attitude between Us and Them. Add to that the recurring theme of the "unfairness" of some having more than others and we probably gain insight into the true political differences at the heart of the matter.