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 ...
It's a good bit of publicity s what it is, and that's only positive. I don't see it as the beginning of what we ultimately want, because it is in essence a poll that doesn't indicate much beyond a narrowly defined area. BUT...anything to get the issue in the air.
The FairTax is the most extensively researched and economically studied tax law that has ever been put before congress.
It has also been endorsed by 75 economists in a letter to the President and members of congress.
Your "moonbat" notion is the moonbat.
What's with you, anyway?
I wouldn't listen to Boortz for anything, and I know exactly what the Fair Tax is.
March 2005. Hmm. 25% not sure. No demographics given. Hmm. What has happened since March 2005?
Also go to any townhall meetings they might have and ask them to support he FairTax - even ask them why they don't if you're knowledgeable enough to rebut their excuses.
The time for the FairTax is geting very close so just keep at it.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that question on my Cobb County/11th district ballot. And of course, I'm part of the 86% who voted YES on the Fair Tax question.
I'm even more pleasantly surprised at the 86% yes vote.
'Nother ping for you!
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"booger flats" counties? Excuse me? Those are three metro Atlanta counties, my friend. Hardly rates as "booger flats".
Get back to me when the Ways and Means Committee actually schedules the hearings on this turkey -- assuming of course that they ever do.
For an example of tax reform that is neither voodoo nor doodoo, see Kemp-Roth.
Ironic that the economist that developed the Kennedy tax cuts and helped advise the man who inspired the voodoo charge was at the same school where I matriculated about a year after I met the very same man who uttered the charge a few months before I met him at my other school, by which time of course he was the running mate of the man who he had previously charged with practicing voodoo. Even more ironic was that the charge was uttered AT the same school where the noted economist taught and your friendly neighborhood Freeper attended. Conservatism was a small world back then -- as was Monetarism, Efficient Capital Markets, MM Theory, and the Shadow Open Market Committee.
Now go and have fun playing with the FairTax, or, as Hedley LaMarr shouted to his men: "Now go do that voodoo that you do!!"
The essentials of Kemp-Roth were passed 25 years ago. That Law has been extensively studied in academia since then. To assert that the FairTax has more research behind it is beyond ignorant.
Well, then, it's obvious - this is not Washington, DC you are talking about!
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March 2005.WOW! A whole year ago! Sorry. I didn't realize it was SOOOOO outdated. Here's their report for 2006 (it's from April so it's still pretty ancient). It looks like you're falling behind the current system. (You're plan is pretty bad when it can't even get more support that the current system. Pitiful.)
When asked to choose between a flat-rate income tax with no deductions, a national sales tax or the current graduated income tax with deductions, 33 percent chose a flat-rate income tax, while 20 percent favored a national sales tax and 21 percent favored the current system of a graduated-rate income tax with deductions. Support for a flat income tax rose with income and age, and was significantly higher among married respondents (37 percent) and those over age 55 (41 percent).
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Well, there's a jihad we can all get behind.
He'll ignore the Fair Tax idea just as he will ignore the BORDER.
Add my vote for the FairTax to that of a whole lot of very wise Georgians!
So put your defeatist attitude in a box and be part of the solution, rather than the problem
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That is an asinine comment. Percentage-wise, there are probably few that have pushed harder on Washington for a Fair/Flat Tax scenario. You might think a little before opening your mouth. If the citizenry, as a whole, had done what I have done, we might already have a positive tax change, or be rid of the crooks in Congress that oppose anything but confiscatory taxation.
You should be more positive and less critical of those that act, and care. We are rare in the population.
I hear your discontent with our politicians but we must make our voice heard. Don't give up.
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