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 ...
But that's still not the FairTax nor is is indicative whether those being polled even had the slightest notion of what a "national sales tax" even was.Golly, I guess we don't really know if those people voting in this non-binding resolution really had the slightest notion of what the "FairTax" even was. I guess, when you think about it, all polls are pointless because we don't really know of the people answering the questions have the slightest notion about what they are being questioned about. Thanks for clearing that up.
"... You're obviously grossly misinformed on this one ...."
... among many other things as well.
"... something that in various forms has proved to be a really bad tax plan ..."
And where might, say, 3 or 4 of those places be???
Tax bills and spending bills are, rightully, different breeds of cat and cannot be mixed without destroying both ... but of course, you'd like that,
That's one reason to use the correct name FairTax. Are you willing to stipulate that what was discussed was named the FairTax? And how was it explained to those being polled ... or was it???
You missed the results of the vote, eh???
Just like he's paying attention to the polls on ILLEGALS? Yep, those polls are working too.
Let's not start that crap again--you apparently haven't been reading the news lately, and I don't have the energy to educate you. No, Bush hasn't completely solved the problem in a couple of months, but there've been plenty of article posted on FR about the improvments over the past month or two. But why bother, you're not listening.
What we need to find is the spammers sending all of the Viagra ads and Mortgage ads to us. Hire them to spread the word. They send EVERBODY their crap.
No, I'm listening but others aren't, and we know who they are.
You seem to have forgotten you anti-FairTax guys have settled upon the numbers in the 8 -10% range as the size of tax costs embedded into prices.
It's probably help you more to find out how much your purchasing power improves going from the income tax to the FairTax. We can probably figure that out for you in a trice if not sooner.
Let's see, what is your current Comprehensive Household Income, marital status, # of kids, etc. so we can see what you should have paid under the income tax.
Comprehensive household income equals pretax cash income plus income from other sources. Pretax cash income is the sum of wages, salaries, self-employment income, rents, taxable and nontaxable interest, dividends, realized capital gains, cash transfer payments, and retirement benefits plus taxes paid by businesses (corporate income taxes and the employer's share of Social Security, Medicare, and federal unemployment insurance payroll taxes) and employee contributions to 401(k) retirement plans. Other sources of income include all in-kind benefits (Medicare, Medicaid, employer-paid health insurance premiums, food stamps, school lunches and breakfasts, housing assistance, and energy assistance).
After we get going we may need to ask a few more clarifying questions, but it'll help you see how much you'll benefit in the long run, If you feel that CHI is too personal, just tell us in which CBO quintile you've landed.
Again, you misquote me, and take what I didn't say out of context.
I also remember that 2 of those 3 counties went for Kerry in 2004
LOL. Thanks for the link. Of course people voting in three metropolitan counties is worthless data.
Still no demographics on the sample. What was it? 700 people? LOL. Are you serious?
It does not identify any tax such as the FairTax so the obvious thing for most people to assume would be a sales tax like their own state sales tax - none of which have the advantages and benefits of the FairTax. The term "national sales tax" by itself is meaningless.
The poll is obviously slanted toward the types of taxation that are income-based such as the current income tax and any one of numerous types of so-called "flat taxes" (also undefined in the "poll". This is clear since many of the questions are phrased int the language of "giving up deductions" which has no meaning in the FairTax environment.
It is an online poll which tend o be very hit and miss and not representative of the population as a whole.
It gives no specifics at all as to the different types of tax systems it asks questions about and trying to pose specific numbers for non-specific questions is absurd.
Did you conduct this "poll" by any chance. Looks like something shoddy enough to be from you.
Why don't you just send AFFT an email and ask how to join if you're so all-fired curious??? That way you'll get current information.
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