Posted on 06/13/2011 12:36:26 PM PDT by RWK
Prospective presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says she wants a national sales tax, but can’t vote for it because she believes Congress would just add it to the current income tax system.
In a profile in The Wall Street Journal, Bachmann says she loves the FAIR tax proposal but just cannot bring herself to back it in the House.
“If we were starting over from scratch, I would favor a national sales tax," the three-term Minnesota congresswoman says. But the reality is that if it were enacted, the chances are “we would end up with a dual tax, a national sales tax and an income tax."
Bachmann says her tax plan would be to take corporate rates down from 35 percent to nine percent and “zero out” capital gains tax, the alternative minimum tax and the death tax.
But she says the main problem with the U.S. tax system is that nearly half the population pays nothing. She says all deductions should be abolished “because there is no tie to the government benefits that people demand.
“Everyone should have to pay something," she insists.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Why should she? Bachmann is the one whose numbers are swirling around the base of the bowl.
Turnabout is fair play.
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looking for these guys to say "let's send home the communists and get back to plain old America" or a similar message
Roger that!
Cheers,
OLA
Pass a flat National Sales Tax on goods
???
Profit!!!
Seriously, I know the chances are small, but replacing the income tax with a sales tax would do wonders for the economy, and remove a major progressive social engineering tool from the government toolbox.
I agree..lets debate the policies a little more and the personalities a little less...We’re starting to sound like democrats...They love to kill the messenger..not debate the message...
You say “the politicians would promise more and more prebate” and “the lobbyiests [sic] would still petition for more and more favored tax and prebate positions”. I looked up the word “prebate” and it wasn’t in the dictionary, and I don’t recognize the term, so I don’t understand your point.
You say “the final law does not have to repeal the 16th amendment, nice try.” Yes it does. If there was enough ambiguity to motivate it’s passage, then that ambiguity needs to be addressed and removed.
You say “it does nothing to limit the fees and sales taxes of the states.” That is as it should be. That’s for each state to work out. See the Principle of Subsidiarity.
You say “this is the biggest scam and is just a means to sell t-shirts by some hole in the wall office in texas.” It’s a serious proposal and calling it a scam is no argument against it.
The Fed is too big already, one more revenue stream simply increases the size of bloated pig.
The problem is not how to best feed the bloated pig that has a bottomless pit for a stomach but rather how to put the pig on a diet, hold the pig accountable, only feed the pig what it requires for the legitimate tasks the people require done e.g. immigration control.
The government is like a big fat pet that thinks it is the pet owner. Giving the pet another feeding trough does nothing but increase the problem.
All your girl does is yak. Michele has a voting record so we know where she really stands. She has to put her money where her mouth is.
Anyone can talk, but it would be nice to know what a candidate thinks about controversial issues instead of playing dodge ball so they can hold out for the stance that makes them most popular. Saying is not doing.
Yes why isn’t she debating? The candidates need all the debate practice they can get. Would be good for Palin too.
Seven candidates will take the stage Monday at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH, between 8 and 10 p.m. EDT: Romney, Mr. Cain, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
Gov Palin has years of putting her signature where her mouth is.
Nevertheless, Mrs. Bachmann is still a legislative failure. She should have stayed in state government.
Well, we’ll need a mature and honest set of Reps, Senators, and a President who is willing to stand up and say, “America was never about freedom for some and servitude for others. It was about everyone pulling their weight and doing what needs to be done to make America great. Subsidies do not inspire greatness.”
We need Franklins, Jeffersons, Washingtons, Reagans, Madisons to come back into American politics. Channel our forefathers. Bring back the idea of American exceptionalism through hard work, not freebies.
Yep. A flat tax of 10%.
Tithing to God is ten percent so that should be more than fair for our worthless Government.
Now I must agree with you point in post #90. Debate practice is a healthy thing.
And instead of prebates, why not just say: “We have food stamps, subsidized housing and various welfare programs for poor people. If those need to increase to pay for sales taxes, then the taxes they pay will take care of that. No checks!”
I’ve asked before what Palin’s position is on the Patriot Act (since that seems to be a disqualifying feature for Bachmann) but no one here can tell me what her position is on it.
Please site Bachmann’s legislative failures precisely and exactly or go back to getting pinged to your Sarah worship her no matter what even if she can’t debate or run- threads.
When your candidate Palin craps or gets of the pot then you can poke at legislative failures of others.Until then it is funny thanks for the laughs.
Thanks OLA.
The problem is that the NewsMax article has an agenda to the article that has nothing to do with the Bachmann candidacy. They are taking on the nebulous failing of the Income Tax and IRS in general and are using a Bachmann interview to make it as though this has some importance in her campaign — an issue which a full reading makes clear is not the case. She outlines what a herculean task such undertakings are and how filled with problems true refore would be.
Never the less, she should know better than to let this subject be the central part of any interview — it can marginalize her.
Cain may well have floated his comments on the Flat Tax in the beginning with just such a off hand comment and now he is defending the scheme in most discussions and interviews — a big misstep.
What I find interesting (and puzzling) is the vindictive way a few on this board have to the other woman who is a potential candidate.
There is no logical reason for this vindictiveness, yet they bring it almost every day....
Some conservatives have a very deep sickness methinks.
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