Posted on 05/12/2005 7:46:54 PM PDT by Your Nightmare
Some parts of the Communist Manifesto apparently make sense to you so which of those categories applies to you ... weak? useless? Oh, I know - academic elite since you said you were cultured and well educated.
Me, I'm just a poor slob who has had to work for the barest of a living. Here's the point of the C. M. that you so love:
"2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
... and you're arguing in favor of that??? 'Fraid your larnin' ain't up to snuff.
You're welcome to use whichever word you like best but you do seem to mix them up. I think the meaning is clear enough either way and hair-splitting with you isn't helping readers to learn about the FairTax so I'll not continue to waste time.
A guy who thinks a lot like you, Bruce.Who does David Gale work for and what does he have to do with this?
FA, you know you've nailed a FairTaxer when they accuse you of "hair splitting"! Congrats on getting Squeally.
IMHO this will kill most new big ticket item sales, who is going to 'use' these items so they can be sold w/o a 23-30% tax added to the price?
If, as a business owner or farmer, you buy something for strictly business purposes (not for personal consumption), you pay no consumption tax.
A Huge loophole. Everyone will open a 'business'.
I am all for a new form of taxation but question this one.
ps.. What about home sales?
Tack on 23-30% and amortize it for 30 yrs? Not a chance.
Another industry killed.
Tax Reform Panel Picks Apart FairTax Proposal
What can be expected from a government that refuses to take a constitutional and common sense approach to spending..........
Not "nailed" at all, sorry. Just not willing to continue to waste time on it. You naysayers like this as a favorite tactic to derail the subject of the thread - the FairTax and its benefits.
Haven't read it since the ninth grade. If you are against progressive taxation then why are you not a supporter of the flat tax? With the BIG or FCA the farttax is designed to have progressivity. Never woulda thought.
PD, I'll take this one. Simple a Flat Tax would allow the IRS to continue existing.
By the way, a socialist is someone who fights tooth and nail for more government regulations, higher taxes, more bureaucrats and would do anything to prevent the repeal and stripping away of any power the government has over the citizens; in other words, from your previous statements on this thread against the Fairtax/NRST, you are a socialist.
Your farttax bill will also allow the income tax to exist. Straight out, if that bill is passed does the Constitution change? I think the answer is no because it can't.
Liar, Fairtax abolishes the IRS, taxes are collected by the states.
About Google, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398507/posts Nuff said.
WRT 274, is that all you got? Lame!
You need to do some research on the points before you bring them up to attack. Every one of those have been covered in depth on these threads before.
Most people unfamiliar with the FairTax automatically assume that the intended tax is applied in addition to existing prices. That's not the case at all as shown in overview form by:
http://www.fairtax.org/pdfs/Removing_Americas_Eco.pdf
A good starting place on home ownership would be:
http://www.fairtax.org/pdfs/FairTax_and_Mortgage.pdf
It seems that you are assuming house prices will stay at pressent levels when instead they will decrease as will interest rates. Check it out.
Business ownership is no more of a "loophole" than at present and, in fact, is undoubtedly less so since the present tax system has analogous loopholes that are even easier to use for evasion - and the marginal rate returns under present tax laws are even greater (with lowered chance of detection due to sheer return volume if nothing else) than the FairTax rate. Payroll taxes alone account for a rate of over 15% and a business choosing to break the law under the FairTax is undoubtedly doiing so now. In fact, the IRS says current noncompliance/evasion is something like 20 - 25% of tax revenues. It seems doubtful the FairTax non-compliance would be that great since retail sales are easer to monitor that all of the permutations of the income tax law and since the points to monitor are many, many fewer that the millions and millons as at present - and the possibility of detection is much greater under the FairTax. That alone will deter many tempted to so indulge..
Even more detailed answers can be found here:
http://www.fairtaxvolunteer.org/smart/faq.html
The FairTax bill itself is very informative and worth reading and it is available as "hr25" here:
http://thomas.loc.gov
No, it's Monday.
Did you know what he said she knew before he knew she had said it, or did he say it before you knew?
Now, are you inferring what I'm implying? How would you know?.... by inferring !!! LOL
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