“You are also foisting MORE paperwork and administration on small business. Business has no place being the governments slave tax collector.”
You don’t appear to realize that most businesses are doing much more in the way of tax collecting by handling the income tax withholding for all their employees and paying it and the SS/MC tax for both the employee and employer sides every paycheck.
And that is ALL businesses, while the FairTax only requires much simpler sales tax collection from the RETAIL businesses, a much smaller group than ALL businesses.
In 46 states, these same businesses already are collecting a local sales tax, which invariably has exemptions so they have to track which items are taxable and which are not. The FairTax applies to EVERYTHING, so it is much simpler than those local sales taxes.
As far as wealthy people go, unlike the luxury tax that can be dodged by buying something overseas and bringing it home, the FairTax is due and payable when they bring it into the country. If they fail to declare it at Customs, then they are guilty of tax evasion.
The luxury tax KILLED a whole industry during its existence int he private boat business.
Pushing american business overseas is exactly what people compalin about.
This is NOT getting rid of paperwork in my business, you are adding to it.
NO WAY.
Thank you, I will tell as many people as possible this Fair Tax is a Sales Tax scam. The word is going to be the Fair Tax is snake oil which is just to create a new ENTITLEMENT TAX in the form of the PREBATE (?!)
Thank you for making this stupid idea crystal clear and opposition so fervent.