Posted on 01/10/2023 11:09:28 AM PST by Carriage Hill
Republicans in the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), eliminate the national income tax, and replace it with a national consumption tax. Fox News Digital has learned that the House will be voting on Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter's reintroduced Fair Tax Act that aims to reel in the IRS and remove the national income tax, as well as other taxes, and replace them with a single consumption tax. The vote on the bill was made as part of the deal between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and members of the House Freedom Caucus and was pushed forward in his quest for the gavel...
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Virtue, professed by frauds, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Waste of time and furthers the image of the GOP as chaotic.
Never going to happen
Good move, but only symbolic. There’s a lot to be done! You dumb Republicans have to block the entire biden/commie agenda! Get cracking!
Yeah, investigate and impeach, but first close the borders and stop the mad rush to insanity that biden started.
But think of all the unemployed IRS workers, Bankers who get paid report earnings, Corporations that have to hire people to keep track of that and report it. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people whose job it is to help American taxpayers meet the legal requirements of the IRS tax and reporting requirement.
Those millions of man-hours could be spent actually doing something beneficial to humanity. Farming, building, cleaning, driving, etc.
Nobody wants that! /sarc/
“national consumption tax.” If this is a tax paid on purchases of items or services, this hits the lower income people the hardest. Curious to see this detailed better on it’s actual structure. I don’t think it’ll get much traction though.
Did they in fact cancel the hiring of 80,000 plus IRS agents?
It’s at least a shot over the bow.
It wasn’t until the late ‘60s that the dimbulb Republicants understood that symbolic votes conducted by the Ratz were intentional: they could then say during an election that “my opponent voted against civil rights for three toed sloths!”.
It’s a start.
“If this is a tax paid on purchases of items or services, this hits the lower income people the hardest”
So then the lower income people will have an incentive NOT to vote for more taxation.
I don’t know what the Republicans think they are accomplishing with these votes. Would I like the IRS cut way back and the tax code radically reformed? Yes. Is it going to happen with a simple-ass vote like this? No. Republicans - including conservative Republicans - in Congress have gotten a deservedly bad rap for being form and show over substance. Talking a good game and taking symbolic votes but getting nowhere. This is another example of that.
It would have to go to the senate......and we know what’s gonna happen there......or NOT happen.
I think you'd need a Constitutional Amendment for that.
replace it with a national consumption tax
Isn't that going from the frying pan into the fire.?
I think the Delusional Left would LOVE to see this bill passed. The income tax portion would be struck down as unconstitutional and what would we be left with?
An income tax AND a "consumption" tax!!!
What to these people have for brains???
“The vote on the bill was made as part of the deal between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and members of the House Freedom Caucus”
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Not much of a deal when it has zero chance of passing... What was the point of this other than some symbolic virtue signaling to the base? I want actual legislation passed, not this bogus posturing.
This is the state of things in DC these days. You WANT this type of situation if you are out of power. You can vote on and even PASS every stupid “no chance bill” that you want KNOWING it won’t be passed by the senate, and CERTAINLY won’t be signed into law by the president. But it gives you the ILLUSION of doing something, and allows you to tell your constituency to keep voting for you in the future. “If only we had control of the senate and presidency, this bill that you’re so interested in could have become law!”. (Knowing full well that when they HAD control of both houses, and the presidency, they had NO INTEREST is this bill, or any resembling it.
ALL FOR SHOW. It’s EASY to be the party out of power. You have to accomplish nothing, and still get paid.
If this is a tax paid on purchases of items or services, this hits the lower income people the hardest.
It also forces illegals to pay taxes. The largest benefit by far.
I agree. not likely to go anywhere.
But, it actually raises quite a lot of interesting points..
@ 50%+ of American spay NO taxes. That is the highest end and the lower end of the earners.
A national sales tax, where the gov gets to essentially incentivize/ penalize products could be viewed by GOV as the ultimate way to steer things...
assuming a “flat rate” of 10%
no tax on groceries/ non prepared food, 20% on soda and chips.
0% on an electric car, 15% on a ICE engine.
A big one could be the Dem dream of 200% on Guns 300% on ammo..
Joey Bidet&Co won’t sign anything the US House offers. The corrupt US Senate will vote it down, as well.
It’s all symbolic, signifying nothing of real substance.
They have sh*t-for-brains.
Its virtue signally, for sure. I am fully aware neither Senate nor Biden will pass it
But IMHO its good virtue signaling. It gets people on record, and keeps the issue alive in the public eye.
BTW its how the Democrats pass their agenda. They start at the fringe, get rejected, but keep it alive until they control the agenda and the votes - Obamacare, gay marriage, CO2 controls, etc...
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