Posted on 02/20/2006 3:30:35 PM PST by Bigun
PING!
Fixing the tax system isn't about fixing tax cheats, it is about fixing our out of control government and its spending. There isn't a problem with the people, it is with the people in government. The only tax cheats are our governments.
"To cover the uncollected taxes, the 130 million U. S. taxpayers are effectively subsidizing the tax cheats to the tune of over $2600 each. In other words, if the cheaters were prevented from cheating, the average taxpayer would see reduction in his or her tax bite by over 30%."
Anyone want to bet that we'd see tax increases since the burden was reduced by 30%?? I never met/saw/listened to any politician that didn't meet tax revenue he/she didn't like..
"The Fair Tax protects low-income individuals and families by rebating taxes paid up to the poverty level."
Herein lies the problem....the US Government already makes approximately 9% mistakes on SSA disbursements, and at a STAGGERING cost. National retail sales tax does the same thing with the cost of rebates to the poor.
You've got it right! Explain to me why gambling losses are deductible in any amount, but medical out-of-pocket expenses have to be 20 percent of your income to be deductible? Or why lower income families struggling to put their children in quality private schools aren't gettting a tax break?
***without the cost of rebates***
Its about BOTH
I beg to differ with you there my friend! As that great old American philosopher POGO once said "I have seen the enemy... and HE is US!!!"
There isn't a one of us who would hire a carpenter to put up a shelf for us and not supervise what they do yet nearly all of us fail to supervise our employees in government at ALL levels!
I wish I am wrong but it ain't going to happen. The government is bigger than we are.
ONLY because we continue to allow it my FRiend!
I wasn't alking about people watching government. I was talking about tax cheats. Tax cheats are not the problem, the government is, and, yes, people not watching the government is.
When someone explains to me how my father, who spent a lifetime paying income tax and now pays virtually no tax on a fixed income, doesn't get totally screwed by a 20%+ sales tax, I'll jump on board.
Otherwise, I'll keep my focus on going after big-government politicians and supporting tax-cutting ones in elections.
Yeah, recover it and spend! We need more spending! You can bet that the $345 bill supposedly owed the gummint is doing a better job for the economy than building bridges to nowhere and paying alphalpha "farmers" for not growing the stuff!
Can anyone inform us of any significant economy where this tax system has worked in the past?
Fair Tax Bump. Good article.
That my friend is exactly right !!! There is NOTHING fair about a "fair tax"
Amen to that. However, if we could lessen the cheating, all us honest folks could pay less too.
Texas and Florida.
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