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To: pigdog
Wrong. Read #660.....660: "The drug dealers (and others) evading taxes are evading INCOME taxes on their ill-gotten gains which ARE taxed with the FairTax as they purchase things at retail"

So the Fair Tax is an income tax???? Your logic defies logic. The Hooker will not submit her $30 tax on the $130 she was paid her for her services. She is cheating the Fair Tax system. It is not fair that the Hooker gets to pocket the full $130 for her services, while I only get to pocket $100. There is no ands, ifs, buts, or ors about it, the illegal transactions still cheat the system.

801 posted on 05/20/2005 9:29:57 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right
The Hooker will not submit her $30 tax on the $130 she was paid her for her services.

Are you really saying that hookers are going to collect the tax?

803 posted on 05/20/2005 9:31:54 AM PDT by Principled
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To: Always Right

Not at all - but maybe you should be a hooker if you think that.

She'll pay the sales tax when she buys at retail unles you think that everyone with unreported/evaded income has retail sources that will look the other way and NOT collect and forward the sales tax - which would require most retailers to chance their entire business just to help out that one sort of customer. That's ridiculous.

I certainly did not say the FairTax was an income tax, but that the income presently evading taxes will be taxed when spent - to the tune of 23% rather that a minor amount as at present.


806 posted on 05/20/2005 9:45:18 AM PDT by pigdog
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