[Man50D]

Jenerette said she favors a federal hiring freeze and the Fair Tax, a plan to eliminate the income tax by significantly raising the sales tax.

This is a big misconception. The sales tax can't be raised significantly since there isn't a national sales tax! However most people fail to understand embedded in the price of every purchase are corporate income taxes that are a cost to businesses and passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices. These value added taxes(VATS) amount to approximately 22%. It is tantamount to a sales tax. The Fair Tax will abolish all federal income taxes thereby removing the VATS. The Fair Tax will be transparent because the 23% rate will appear as a separate item on every receipt. Consequently prices will initially see only a slight price rise but will eventually decrease as businesses pass on at least some of the cost savings due to competition.

[kjenerette]

Thanks for the feedback. The news story got it wrong about the sales tax reduction - these were the reporter's words not mine. Here is my short 'abstract' view on this issue:

Katherine Jenerette on Income Tax:

From its founding, our country operated without a personal income tax for 137 years.

My bottom line on income tax may sound simplistic, but I believe that a tax on a person’s income violates the basic principals of our original Constitution and the Declaration of Independence with regard to the equality of all men.

The basic principal of a free man is that he cannot be owned by another man or no man can own another man’s labor. To say that the government can violate this principal is a contradiction of our uniquely American beliefs of freedom.

Once the government can sweep aside the boundary between its hand and your wallet; which is your labor, they have violated the principal of a free man.

Secondly is the principal of a limited government is violated by creating institutions that both increase the size of the federal government; which in turn, allows those institutions to control and limit the opportunities of a free people.

While I support the fair tax, I believe it is an idea with its’ “heart in the right place; especially with the overriding objective of the repeal of the 16th Amendment but I believe it is a work in progress.

My legislative agenda is that there should be no income tax and the 16th Amendment should be repealed.

First, I would move to repeal the 16th Amendment. Concurrently; upon ratification of the appeal, institute a National Sales Tax of 23% which will be reduced each congress by 3%. By law, this tax will be reduced 3% every two years, which will force the government to shrink 3% every two years. Within 18 years, there will be no national Sales Tax and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT will have to have shrunk by 23%.

I do not agree with the concepts of pre-bates. It is another federal government control mechanism that allows the federal government to maintain leverage over an individual which would be a close cousin to the system we have right now. This would build another level of dependency on the federal government, which would extend far beyond those persons dependent on the federal government right now. However, some legislative plan will have to be enacted for those persons below a certain income level that will be most impacted by the initial 23% tax and indexed until the moratorium is reached.

No matter how the legislation is worded or worked out the message to the Federal Government is this: Get away from our income. The only exception that I can conceive of myself, would be during a war declared by Congress in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 8.

thanks

Katherine

Katherine Jenerette for US Congress