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 ...
That's one way to look at it, but to wield this power they must be elected - that power is gone when they're voted out of office.
Only one of many, though ...
How the hell does any president of the USA control the price of oil? I do not want a president of our country controlling the price of oil anyway!
Very true. Although for real change I think we have to work at the primary level...I know a few Republicans that support this but not a single Democrat who does...except for a few and I don't trust them on other issues.
Yeah, boortz is an entertainer like streisand or the like. Nobody down here takes him for anything more.
They are three very large counties outside of Atlanta. Hardly backwoods hicks.
Well, I'm not a boortz listener and I support the nrst.
Nevertheless, it does not make sense to put a national issue on a local ballot.
Contain yourself.
Not when you take everything I say out of context.
Will you try to name any advantages or go with namecalling? I think I know.
If it appeared that way on the ballot then it is a poll question, not a vote. In other words, utterly useless.
This is the kind of thing one would see the City Council of Ithaca NY do -- vote to declare a nuclear-free zone or impeach Bush or save baby albino whales. It's not a question that can be decided at a local level.
As a general rule, when an advocacy group has to resort to such ridiculous stunts and tactics, YOU KNOW that the group is so far out of the mainstream that they realize they can't get attention any other way.
The mentality of those pushing this idea here on Free Republic seems to be that if the number of threads keeps increasing every month, passage of this into Law moves closer. In reality, no progress has been made.
If the FairTax advocates run out of ideas on how to publicize the idea, there's always Santa Monica. No idea is too radical for the placards by the side of the path there.
Monthly "greed meetings" at a secret location. The President attends along with all of the oil company robber barons and Karl Rove. They flip a coin that has "GREED!!" on one side and "NO GREED!!" on the other and use that to decide prices. Just plain bad luck it's come up "GREED!!" 27 months in a row.
Sorry, but banks do not pay 25% of the interest I pay to them in taxes. Take JP Morgan for example. They collect about $85 billion in interest and their profit is about $9 billion. Worst case scenerio, they pay 35% of $9 billion (I doubt it is anywhere near that) or about $3 Billion in federal income tax. So at most banks will see a 3.5% savings, what does not even translates into a 1/8 of a point lower rates.
Your take on tax-free debt instruments is hilarious.
Such instruments are generally held by individuals in high tax brackets. Muni bonds, for example, are exempt from F.I.T. Municipalities can therefore offer lower rates than taxable bonds.
Don't take my word for it -- just look at today's Wall Street Journal.
Your bias is showing. BTW, what were the results of the poll - what with it being so far out of the meainstream? DOH!
The mentality of those pushing this idea here on Free Republic seems to be that if the number of threads keeps increasing every month, passage of this into Law moves closer.
Why do you think that the number of FR threads has anything to do with passage of a bill in the US Congress?!
In reality, no progress has been made.
LOL. You don't know much about it, do you?
How about coming up with something to debate? Can you? Or are you ignorant to the extent that you just name call and denigrate with no positions whatsoever? Sounds like a 5 yr old.
Metro Area = 4,708,000
City of Atlanta = 419,000
Fulton County = 915,000
Cobb County = 663,000
Gwinnette County = 726,000
DeKalb County = 678,000
Fayette county = 191,000
That wasn't said. You made that up. The thing they pay that increases rates appx 25% includes taxes, but that isn't all.
Can you look at the difference between tax free and taxable instruments? .... Good. I knew you could. How would you explain that difference?
If you simple stomp your foot and fold your arms and say "it isn't so" - that's fine. But you're wrong.
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