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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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