[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

Lastly, it's time to examine what George Bush stands for, because it appears he is trying to harmonize our tax laws with the other countries of the world. There has been no clarification – let alone an announcement – that the Bush administration is changing the tax code. Why keep truth from the American people? What happened to the country that the colonists fled to from the British and European feudalistic systems?
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Guys, I have written many times that the "fair" tax is a system designed by the wealthy for the wealthy and their moneyhandlers. I have also written that the NRST is DESIGNED to destroy the middle class in this country, and that "step on the ladder" from "rags" to riches that has been a hallmark of what the U.S. of A. has done so well over the last two hundred plus years.

It is DESIGNED to put the onus on those who are starting out, and must buy EVERYTHING in order to JUST get by. It is EVIL!!

What WAS the "popularity" rating of Bush the senior after the first Iraq war?? Peace and love, George.

[Enduring Freedom]

The current tax system makes slaves of Americans who work.

The fair tax is just that, fair. I encourage all of you to support it.

Lefties will shriek, whine and cry, of course.

Let them howl.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You seem to forget one thing

THE IRS IS DESTROYING THE MIDDLE CLASS!!

Almost anything would be better than this country's current tax system, so quit bitching about what MIGHT happen and start worrying about what IS happening.

[Taxman]

You are so wrong, George. The NRST will cause a huge increase for all Americans -- the poor will get richer and the rich will get richer.

That is what America is about, George!

Your musings could have been written my Marx and Engels, and may well have been, for all I know. You ought not to plagarize them, George, without attribution!

I am not even going to bother to answer you except to say that the progressive income tax was intentionally designed to prevent the growth of an American middle class. The problem is, the American middle class came into being before the rates could be jacked up high enough to prevent it.

But there are still a bunch of folks working to "Fix that problem." Those poobahs in Washington, DC (and in state capitals and city/county government seats) who tax and spend the money they steal from decent, hard-working Americans are, some intentionally and some not so intentionally, doing Marx and Engels work as we speak!

[kevao]

NRST...It is DESIGNED to put the onus on those who are starting out, and must buy EVERYTHING in order to JUST get by.

If you exempt food, clothing and shelter from the tax, then the onus would not be on those people, who spend some 90% of their income on these items.

[Sci Fi Guy]

The VAT tax is drastically different from a NRST. They are not the same. You can be against a VAT tax and for a NRST.