From Dimp-Dimp's #131:
"I didn't say ALL expenditures would increase by 30%. So we then agree in principal: states and localities will have to raise MORE tax money than they currently have to pay their FairTax prices. Nowhere in the FairTax propaganda is that noted."
And from his earlier post on #117 of this thread:
"States and localities must now pay 30% FairTax on consumption purchases and salaries; nowhere in all the FairTax propaganda nor in the ramblings of its proponents is this fact EVER acknowledged. States and localities will need to RAISE tax rates to compensate."
We see here a wonderful example of the anti-FairTax crowd's duplicity and disingenuousness when the poster claims with equivocation to never have said something he clearly said without equivocation (states & localities have to pay 30% tax on salaries... which isn't true IAE). He then jumps from his disguised misstatement to the interpretation than the recipient of the post agrees with him (which was not the case) and projects that non-truth to mean there must be an inrease in tax money raised (which also is not true).
This sort of misrepresentation and balderdash is usually known as the Chicken Little attack mode to try to scare the uninformed away from the FairTax. It's basic assumption is that people are stupid. They aren't.
It's like old Abe said:
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
And the Squirrels are fooling very few people jusdging from the feedback I see.
Perhaps you should read the bill before you shoot your snout off:
Yes, governments would be required to pay FairTax on wages and salaries.
`SEC. 103. RULES RELATING TO COLLECTION AND REMITTANCE OF TAX.
`(a) LIABILITY FOR COLLECTION AND REMITTANCE OF THE TAX- Except as provided otherwise by this section, any tax imposed by this subtitle shall be collected and remitted by the seller of taxable property or services (including financial intermediation services).
`(b) Tax To Be Remitted by Purchaser in Certain Circumstances-
`(1) IN GENERAL- In the case of taxable property or services purchased outside of the United States and imported into the United States for use or consumption in the United States, the purchaser shall remit the tax imposed by section 101.
`(2) CERTAIN WAGES OR SALARY- In the case of wages or salary paid by a taxable employer which are taxable services, the employer shall remit the tax imposed by section 101.
`SEC. 703. GOVERNMENT PURCHASES.
`(a) Government Purchases-
`(1) PURCHASES BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT- Purchases by the Federal Government of taxable property and services shall be subject to the tax imposed by section 101.
`(2) PURCHASE BY STATE GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS- Purchases by State governments and their political subdivisions of taxable property and services shall be subject to the tax imposed by section 101.