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To: Willie Green
It is not disimilar to a 21st Century eco-feudal system where the corporate aristocracy invest and expand their property holdings completely tax-free, while the serfs are overburdened with the excessive taxation on consumption and persuaded that it's supposedly "fair" because the consumption taxes are redistributed through the formal social welfare system.

Interested in how you came to that conclusion. Please explain.
16 posted on 03/08/2005 9:35:12 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty ("Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." —Albert Einstein)
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To: Kerretarded
Interested in how you came to that conclusion. Please explain.

It's a straightforward examination of how their oversimplified, snake-oil panacea actually works.

All consumption taxes, including sales taxes, discourage consumption.
And the burden of taxation will fall most heavily on those on the lower rungs of the economic ladder because they must devote a larger proportion of their earnings to purchasing "necessities" (food, clothing, shelter, medicines). The so-called "fair tax" falsely promises to remedy this inherent burden by entrapping them in cradle-to-grave "tax rebates" from the Social Security Administration.

23 posted on 03/08/2005 9:52:44 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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