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Fair Tax gets 86% of vote in Georgia! Results will be sent to President Bush.
Nealz Nuze ^ | July 19, 2006 | Neal Boortz

Posted on 07/19/2006 7:26:18 AM PDT by Arcy

The FairTax was on the primary ballots in three Georgia counties yesterday. I have the results of the voting! Here you go.

Gwinnett County:

Total Votes: 35,755 Yes - 31,068. 86.9% No - 4,687 13.1%

Cobb County:

Total votes: 39,458 Yes - 33,598. 85.15% No - 5,860. 14.85%

Fayette County:

Total votes: 11,517 Yes - 9,828. 85.33% No - 1,689. 14.67%

According to Boortz the results of this vote will be personally handed to President Bush today via a Washington insider. The purpose of which is to convey the FACT that there is great support for this solution to current tax system and that this is a plan that can get the voters to the polls. Many of which called and e-mailed Boortz to say that they had no plans of voting yesterday until they learned that the Fair Tax was on the ballot.

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(Excerpt) Read more at boortz.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
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To: pigdog
Certainly I understood you point and even said as much in one of two of the posts. I clearly also said that was not what I was talking about.
So why even waste time contending an irrelevant point?

pigdog = worst. FReeper. ever.
1,021 posted on 07/27/2006 8:10:35 AM PDT by Your Nightmare
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To: pigdog
[And , no, I didn't lie about what you said].>
You most certainly did. You said I "claim[ed] the CPI was somehow determined by a 'set basket' of stuff." I never said or claimed any such thing.

You lied.
1,022 posted on 07/27/2006 8:18:08 AM PDT by Your Nightmare
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To: lewislynn
Points of information ... wages do not "go up" due to the FairTax; they remain the same and purchasing power goes up for the given amount of wages.

The reason, of course is that the worker has more in the way of takehome pay with the federal taxes that were previously removed from the paycheck AND he receives the prebate.

Also, it's "poverty guidelines" that determine the prebate, not "poverty rate".

1,023 posted on 07/27/2006 8:20:47 AM PDT by pigdog
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To: pigdog
Also, no one "caught" me (except in your fevered imagination) since I was responding to an erroneous statement by another poster

Let it go man. It was not an erroneous statement. Your characterazation of it was erroneous. Just for once admit it.

1,024 posted on 07/27/2006 8:25:14 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right
In #989 I said:

"Why don't all of you just drop such a profitless discussion and move on"

... and now you're sounding like an echo. The difference is that I'm not about to say that the poster's statement was not erroneous - since it was and I explained that at length in #964. If you choose to believe he's not in error, that's fine, but don't ever think I'll agree with that.

I'd be willing (as I've said before) to leave it at that and move to something more meaningful and I'd hope you would be too, If not, that's fine too as I suppose you can drag this out into an indefinite amount of meaningless posting.

Suit yourself.

1,025 posted on 07/27/2006 8:45:23 AM PDT by pigdog
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To: lewislynn
If the prices of those goods goes down and your wages up...

Ooops. Have you missed the entire thread?

Wages remain the same. Take home pay increases due to the elimination of withholding.

The nominal prices of goods goes up (according to all of the anti-nrst folks), not down.

But the increase in take home pay exceeds the nominal increases in prices such that purchasing power is increased for every quintile, every family size of LEGAL participants in the income/payroll tax system.

According to you then, as nominal prices rise so will the rebate. Increase lewis. Opposite of what you say.

BTW, most people lie about what they pay for things because they don't want anyone to think they're stupid enough to get screwed.

Speak for yourself!

1,026 posted on 07/27/2006 10:12:54 AM PDT by Principled
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To: pigdog
Under the FairTax, though, people will readily see what they pay for "their government" as part of the gallon of milk they buy, each pound of hamburger, and each pair of underwear they buy. There will be some who will get the idea that that's too much to pay in tax and they will choose to spend less regardless of the fact that their purchasing power has increased. They will instead decide to save and invest more - helping themselves and their families rather than helping enlarge government.

So you can keep calling for "revolt" if you like, but it'll fall on deaf ears.

If they choose to spend less, tax collections will go down, and they will be legally avoiding their FairShare of taxes.

If they decide to pressure government to lower taxes, that would be called a taxpayer revolt just as prop 13 was in California.

1,027 posted on 07/27/2006 5:13:19 PM PDT by lucysmom
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To: lucysmom
FYI, the so-called "CA tax revolt" referred to taxpayers putting a specific property tax issue on the ballot through the initiative process the state has and then getting enough votes in the election to pass it into law.

The equivalent thing with the FairTax would be to pass the FairTax into law and would NOT be the individual consumer decisions under that law once passed. That's no "revolt" at all but just the normal consumption process with consumers making their own free will choices of buying or not based upon their own considerations and circumstances.

1,028 posted on 07/28/2006 4:02:48 AM PDT by pigdog
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To: Arcy
Results will be sent to President Bush

Who has nothing to do with either writing new laws or amending the Constitution.

Here's a link which may help these people to understand the President's role in our government.

1,029 posted on 07/28/2006 4:06:08 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.)
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To: ancient_geezer
the monthly poverty level.

A "sales tax rebate" based on poverty levels rather than taxes actually paid by the recipient, if any.

Scam.

1,030 posted on 07/28/2006 9:43:15 PM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave

Income tax personal/standard deductions and multitudes of credits based on nothing more than political pandering blatently setting groups of voters against each.

Not just a scam but total and blatant political manipulation of the electorate.

I'll take a standard sales tax rebate of HR25 available to all citizens rooted in the concept of taxing only that which is above necessity level spending any anyday.


Then there are those others who believe that taxing what is necessary to mere existance and in effect the the unalienable right to Life is appropriate.

I guess it takes all kinds.


1,031 posted on 07/28/2006 10:39:45 PM PDT by ancient_geezer (Don't reform it, Replace it.)
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To: ancient_geezer
Income tax personal/standard deductions and multitudes of credits based on nothing more than political pandering

Spoken like a tax protest crank.

Actually, a guaranteed monthly entitlement payment made without regard to any tax actually paid by the recipient would be political pandering in an attempt to sell this aging pig.

1,032 posted on 07/29/2006 2:52:39 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave

I see, you're just out trolling for tail end Charlie.

Good day to yol.


1,033 posted on 07/29/2006 7:49:00 AM PDT by ancient_geezer (Don't reform it, Replace it.)
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To: ancient_geezer

Have a nice spam.


1,034 posted on 07/29/2006 7:49:46 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Look who has the temerity to talk about "spam". A guy who runs around misstating what the prebate is and calling it an entitlement when it clearly is not. It's a return of tax paid much like the present day tax refunds on April 15.

There've been many postings of links to data that show that even though with income at the poverty guideline level (of below) still spend at much higher levels so there will be very few, if any, who don't pay the FairTax - and they'll pay at the same marginal rate as all other taxpayers.

You seem to be defending the present income tax system and it labyrinth and unjustifiable complex system of actual entitlements, exceptions, exemptions, deductions, and just plain old special favors. Under the FairTax, there are none of those things.

1,035 posted on 07/29/2006 8:50:35 AM PDT by pigdog
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To: pigdog; lucysmom
That's no "revolt" at all but just the normal consumption process with consumers making their own free will choices of buying or not based upon their own considerations and circumstances.
Right, because we all know the monthly spending by most people is a luxurious choice and not for their needed everyday lifestyle.
< /sarcasm >

Don't want to pay the tax? Alter your everyday lifestyle downward....

1,036 posted on 07/29/2006 9:20:08 AM PDT by lewislynn (Fairtax = lies, hope, wishful thinking, conjecture and lack of logic)
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To: pigdog
Look who has the temerity to talk about "spam". A guy who runs around misstating what the prebate is

You.

1,037 posted on 07/29/2006 12:54:01 PM PDT by Mojave
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To: lewislynn
Don't want to pay the tax? Alter your everyday lifestyle downward....

Teach those greedy people who have saved for retirement a lesson!

1,038 posted on 07/29/2006 1:16:50 PM PDT by Mojave
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To: lewislynn

No, but rather because taxpayers will have much improved purchasing power under the FairTax which has been shown by many actual numerical examples. Perhaps you didn't understand them??


1,039 posted on 07/30/2006 12:13:59 PM PDT by pigdog
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To: Mojave
Ah, but the prebate hasn't been misstated. It's exactly what was said - a tax refund; nothing more or less.

As for those on retirement, they'll do just fine as some of the numerical examples comparing purchasing power have shown.

Perhaps you'd like to provide a set of numbers for a representative taxpayer under the income tax that we could help educate you about?

1,040 posted on 07/30/2006 1:03:35 PM PDT by pigdog
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