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There is No Such Thing as a Fair Tax
Ludwig von Mises Institute ^ | 12/12/2005 | Laurence Vance

Posted on 12/11/2005 6:50:49 PM PST by Your Nightmare

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1 posted on 12/11/2005 6:50:52 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: kpp_kpp; Always Right; lewislynn; RobFromGa; Petronski

ping


2 posted on 12/11/2005 6:52:08 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: pigdog
Ping to pigdog to come make a fool of himself!

[Again!]
3 posted on 12/11/2005 6:53:34 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: Your Nightmare

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4 posted on 12/11/2005 6:56:46 PM PST by Prime Choice (We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
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To: Your Nightmare

Ok, then we will just keep the crappy system we have now!/sar.
I am for bringing back the tarrifs that used to support us before we stupidly bought into the income tax. I am willing to try anything, including the fair tax, as long as it is not another income tax. Flat taxes are out as far as I am concerned, it will quickly degenerate into the income tax system we have now.


5 posted on 12/11/2005 6:59:58 PM PST by calex59 (Seeing the light shouldn't make you blind...)
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To: calex59
I am willing to try anything, including the fair tax, as long as it is not another income tax.
Anything? How about the Colon Tax? With the Colon Tax, the government taxes you on the length of your colon. Once a year, the government sends someone to your house and he shoves his arm up your rectum to see how long your colon is.

Point: it can always get worse. (And the FairTax is.)
6 posted on 12/11/2005 7:06:01 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: Your Nightmare

Ho, hum. This argumentative essay is far too logical to be the basis for any sort of likely reform.

But let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good. Any reasonable tax reform is better than what we have now, and what we will be getting as the AMT hits more and more people.

A flat income-tax would be good; then tax cuts, then permanent tax limits.

First, though, we must win the war. Otherwise, most of us will be paying the jizya, the special tax Islam imposes on dhimmis (non-Moslems). You will be forced to pay that asuumming that you are not simply sold into slavery, which was the big money-maker for the movement under the leadership of the false prophet himself.


7 posted on 12/11/2005 7:07:38 PM PST by docbnj
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To: Your Nightmare

Just out of curiousity, which CPA firm do you work for?


8 posted on 12/11/2005 7:15:15 PM PST by SoDak
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To: sauropod

mark


9 posted on 12/11/2005 7:16:47 PM PST by sauropod ("The love that dare not speak its' name has now become the love that won't shut the hell up.")
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To: Your Nightmare
...Former attorney Boortz is the well-known Atlanta-based "libertarian" talk show host who, like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, spends an inordinate amount of time on the evils of liberalism, the Left, and the Democratic Party while turning a blind eye to big government Republicans and supporting Bush's "War on Terror." ...

This statement is proof that the author has never listened to Boortz for any length of time.

10 posted on 12/11/2005 7:17:06 PM PST by FReepaholic (Admitted FReepaholic since 1998.)
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To: SoDak
Just out of curiousity, which CPA firm do you work for?
I don't work for a CPA firm. Nice logical fallacy, though.
11 posted on 12/11/2005 7:19:57 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: tscislaw
This statement is proof that the author has never listened to Boortz for any length of time.
Why should he (or anybody else, for that matter)? I didn't have to listen to him very long to realize he's a loudmouth buffoon.
12 posted on 12/11/2005 7:21:58 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: Your Nightmare

I'm just mainly curious which horse is yours in this race. On the fair tax, I've not done enough research to be for, or against, but it's your main occupation at FR, and I'm just curious how the fair tax will harm your interests.


13 posted on 12/11/2005 7:22:12 PM PST by SoDak
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To: Your Nightmare

He hit most of the key points, although I could add several more problems of the fairytax. Probably the best article against the fairytax I've seen outside of threads on this forum.


14 posted on 12/11/2005 7:26:59 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Your Nightmare

Move tax day to the vicinity of election day, say the first week in October, a month before voting.


15 posted on 12/11/2005 7:28:33 PM PST by dr huer
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To: Your Nightmare

As I have repeatedly stated, NO tax reform will ever work until the excess spending of government is gotten under control.

Want to cut the deficit? Stop all the excessive spending across the board. Pork barrel projects need to be the first.

As long as either party has endless supplies of our money, they will just keep taking and throwing it away as they see fit.


16 posted on 12/11/2005 7:28:40 PM PST by DakotaRed
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To: SoDak
I'm just mainly curious which horse is yours in this race. On the fair tax, I've not done enough research to be for, or against, but it's your main occupation at FR, and I'm just curious how the fair tax will harm your interests.
It would harm the country I live in, the government that represents me, and the economy I earn my living in (at a job that has absolutely nothing to do with taxes or politics). It would also take this country further down the road toward socialism by putting every citizen on the government dole.

I believe we should replace the current system with the Flat Tax. It's a consumption tax without the problems of the FairTax.
17 posted on 12/11/2005 7:30:12 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: Your Nightmare

Now that you're done trashing the Fair Tax, what's your proposal?


18 posted on 12/11/2005 7:30:57 PM PST by fix
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To: fix
Now that you're done trashing the Fair Tax, what's your proposal?
The Flat Tax. (And I'm not done trashing the FairTax.)
19 posted on 12/11/2005 7:33:44 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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To: Your Nightmare
Does this guy want some cheese with all that whine?

So the fair tax isn't perfect, it's a whole lot better than what we have now. Congress will never pass tax reform anyway, it would cramp their spending style.
20 posted on 12/11/2005 7:33:56 PM PST by liliesgrandpa (The Republican Party simply can't do anything without that critical 100-seat Senate majority.)
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