Posted on 01/20/2008 6:29:07 AM PST by Man50D
During an election season, one of the first losers is the truth. The current misinformation campaign against the FairTax has been particularly virulent. Last month the FairTax was being panned by some columnists as a "crackpot scheme," even though it could be collected exactly the same way as its close cousin, the value-added tax, which is the most successful tax in the world. This month the FairTax is being vilified by various columnists as a tax increase for the middle class, even though it would provide a substantial tax cut for two-parent middle class families. Specifically, in a recent column, George Will asked, "Do you want a president (Mike Huckabee, proponent of a national sales tax of at least 30 percent) pledged to radically increase the proportion of federal taxes paid by the middle class?" Similarly, Time magazine's business and economics columnist Justin Fox wrote a blog piece entitled, "The FairTax and its big break for the $200,000-plus crowd."
The FairTax is a national sales tax that would replace the income taxes, the payroll taxes, and the gift and inheritance taxes. It would be a 30 percent sales tax on retail purchases. Since 30 cents is 23 percent of $1.30 (the amount you would pay on a $1 item), a 30 percent FairTax would cost you about 23 percent of your consumption. To help you pay the tax, you would get a prebate check or a debit card credit at the beginning of each month equivalent to the amount you would pay when buying necessities. In 2007, that amount would have been based upon $10,210 spending per adult and $3,480 spending per child.
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Does Congress get to write the laws on how taxes are collected?
Absolutely.
Then it also makes sense that Congress gets to write the laws on how excess taxes are refunded.
You seem to be inside wintertime’s mind and defining her words for her.
Being a Fair Tax advocate has nothing to do with my taking exception with her comment.
But since you have echoed her sentiments, how would you propose dismantling and reestablishing K-University education?
Remember that you don’t have unilateral power to wave a wand and make it happen. Remember also that private schools at every level already exist.
So how you gonna do it?
I don’t think is a rebate, but a prefund like before.
Well, birdbrain, you all but totally illiterate crap is what I have come to expect from you.
I notice that you obviously are too stupid to motice for yourself that I DID NOT fail to refute anything said panel found, for one very good reason -- I did not, and did not try to do so -- not do I have any intention of wasting my time on it. They are as full of s-it about the subject as you are.
So wallow in your stupidity, I don't care.
Financial aid from the government. Like a monthly check based on a poverty level analysis by Fair Tax advocates.
Inevitable failure is a waste of time.
I might say the same about you -- the community bonehead -- either too damned stupid to learn anything, or too stubborn to admit that he doesn't understand something as basicly simple as the Fair Tax-- thus remaining an ignorant slug. And proud of it.
"Refund" taxes that were never paid? Horse Hillary.
Looks like I gave you too much credit for intelligence enough to see one of the customary bitches of most conservatives.
Just forget the whole damned athing.
YOU ARE A WASTE OF TIME. PLEASE STOP WASTING MY TIME. DROP OFF.
The President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform found that the “Fair Tax” would be the largest entitlement program in history.
“Your abject failure to refute anything the President’s Advisory Panel found is exactly what I’ve come to expect from you.
I might say the same about you — the community bonehead — either too damned stupid to learn anything, or too stubborn to admit that he doesn’t understand something as basicly simple as the Fair Tax— thus remaining an ignorant slug. And proud of it.”
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? THAT WAS NOT MY QUOTE.
Totally agree.
There are no chains so strong as those which exist only in the mind.
While I am not thrilled with taxes, they are part of the cost of doing business. It is the same anywhere in the world. Some places cost more, some places give a better value for your tithe, and some will leave you alone if you just pay their tribute.
This country used to be one of the latter.
Unfortunately, when the majority of the electorate here forgets or is brainwashed out of the concept that government governs by the consent of the governed, and that those who serve there are their employees and not their masters, then this will become one of those places where landowners will be treated as serfs.
When that day comes, if you are not a herald of its arrival (yes, I noticed when the people were cut out of the chart of organization of the government some 30 years ago in textbooks, when they used to be at the top), it will be time for those who love freedom to find another place where they can move in sufficient numbers to significantly influence the formation of a new and more basic government to meet the most basic of governmental needs, or do so here.
If you would argue that we are all slaves, then you are not part of the solution, but part of the problem.
At present, this government has problems, philosophical ones, financial ones, and is under constant assault from those who would emmasculate the average citizen in order to form some sort of proletariat they can manipulate for their own ends, through any means available to those actors who would be the rulers of that working class.
Government was never meant to be a career, but a service, engaged in for part of the year. It is only the continued and increasing laziness and preoccupation of the citizenry which has permitted the usurpation of the people's power, and the general ignorance of what the tasks government is and is not supposed to perform which allows such to continue.
If you deem yourself a slave, then you have ceeded the field, and surrendered to those who would strip you of your power as a citizen. That is your choice. I will not accept those chains.
You are a birdbrain, are you not? Post #67 vs your #108.
Gunner is all about ready!, fire!, aim!
My most humble apologies. That is a quote by another birdbrain on the forum, not you, and my answer to him, that I hadn’t wiped off my word processor page, and got punched on the wrong post.
You have no idea what my preferred form of taxation is. Just because I don't think THE FT is nirvana and don't want to be a member of your cult doesn't even mean I don't think consumption taxes have their advantages. Please, get a grip.
Nicely done!
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