Gitten rid of the IRS? Why thems figtin words!!!
Why anybody with any brams would know that!!!
(sacasm on)
First repeal the 16th amendment. Then let’s talk.
You lost me there...
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter..
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
What a rotten headline... as much as I hate Huckabee’s politics in general, the misleading headline is just a smear.
This would never get past Congress, but I can understand why such a story is being printed at this time.
ok, replace one tax system with another, we will still get ripped off. Besides, you will still have to file with the state, and here in California, the state BOE makes the Irs look like girl scouts.
People would stop buying taxed items in record numbers. Doesn't matter if you eliminate FICA and income taxes (good luck trying). 23% would shock most civilians at the cash register. It wouldn't eliminate state sales or income taxes either.
I think the problem with the Fair Tax of 23% sales tax will be two fold ... first depending on vendors to not only collect but remit the sales tax and second, I think a strong barter system will develop to avoid paying 23%.
Mike Huckabee, one of the most conservative Republicans in the 2008 presidential race -— what?!
The writer of this article doesn’t have a clue about the platform of conservative Republicans.
Huckabee is a liberal democrat in a pro-life dancing suit.
He is the Elmer Gantry (sans the sex and booz) of the 21st century.
Check out this article from Politco and notice how he is seducing and guilt-tripping the Iowan evangelicals into voting for him.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7544.html
Huckabee: All fluff - no substance.
We’ll wind up with both - income taxes and a 23% sales tax.
THIS IS ONE THING I AGREE WITH HUCKABEE ON: Repalce the Income Tax with a 23% National Sales Tax (known as the Fair Tax).
This is the only fair way to eliminate the IRS and the income tax system. Everybody pays their fair share. The ghetto kids, whose mamaS pay no taxes, pay their fair share when they buy the $175 Raiders Jacket and the $125 Michael Jordan tennis shoes.
FAIR TAX!!! YES! YES! YES!
It’s a 30% national sales tax that is being proposed, NOT 23%.
When you add 30% to the price, 23% of the total paid is for tax, hence the clever misrepresentation “23% tax”.
.30/1.30 = .23
People with a state sales tax of 8%, would pay a total of 38%.
This proposed “fair” tax would cause cheating and off-shoring on a scale that we have never before seen. It would be a total unmitigated disaster.
HucksterTax taking a beating ping...
Unspinning the FairTax - We look at the numbers behind the numbers.
Thanks to FactCheck.org (includes sources)
I have a HUGE problem with people that are retired and decide they have paid their fair share and do not need to pay anymore taxes. That just crazy. You live here you use the services so you should pay. It is not like you did paid a surplus when you were working.
It just frosts me.
The government should figure out what it will cost to run the government. Divide that amount by the number of soles in the Country and send them all the very same bill. Period. Everybody should pay the same amount and people that are more industrious, talented or lucky should not have to carry the others.
Taxes should be “WRITE a check.” Not added on to this or that or deducted from salary.
Now I know this will never happened but it is highly offensive for old people to not continuing to pay for the services they get.
Huckabee still doesn’t understand that it is not the way we pay the tax it how much we have to pay.
It would start out at 23% and before you know it would be 24 then 25 then 26 etc.
We need to cut the size of goverment in half now, asap!!
John
I don’t much care for Huckabee, but would probably vote for him if nominated, for this issue alone.
Removing the income tax would take a huge burden off the economy.
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Since the SALES TAX is the only tax that so VERY many ‘see’, it’ll go nowhere.
You’d have to convince people that ALL the taxes they now pay are GREATER than that, and Government will NEVER do that!
You can’t even get people to acknowledge that businesses pay NO taxes!
They are tax COLLECTORS for the state!
Increase the ‘tax’ 500% on ANY product and the PRICE of that product will go up OVER 500%! (Someone has to do the paper work!)