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To: RobFromGa
A business can give it's employees a 25% take-home pay raise if they want, but they can't also save money on the elimination of the embedded worker payroll taxes. Put another way, You can't have your cake, and eat it too.

I am not understanding this statement the business is not giving you a 25% take home pay raise they just are not taking out taxes you still make the same amount of pay hourly.

410 posted on 08/26/2005 12:23:06 PM PDT by CONSERVE
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To: CONSERVE
the business is not giving you a 25% take home pay raise they just are not taking out taxes you still make the same amount of pay hourly.

The key word is "take-home". Let me try to explain. If they don't take out the taxes your gross pay is the same, but the take-home pay is higher by the amount of the taxes. The business has two choices (actually a range of choices between these two extremes):

A. they can keep paying you $8 per hour and now give you the whole $8 (instead of giving you $6.50 and the govt approx $1.50 as before). In this case the business hasn't saved anything on your income and payroll taxes, so they will be able to only reduce prices by at most 10% (the money they save on your half of FICA, plus a few percent for other things beyond the scope of this post). So, the prices you pay at retail will not go down, and when they tack on the 30% FairTax you will pay about 17% more for everything you buy on average.

OR

B. they can reduce your gross pay to the $6.50 you were "taking-home" before. In this case the business HAS saved on your income and payroll taxes, so they will be able to reduce prices by perhaps 23%. So, the prices you pay at retail will go down about 23% on average, and when they tack on the 30% FairTax you will pay about the same as now for everything you buy on average.

See the example in the letter here for more clarification:

418 posted on 08/26/2005 1:45:07 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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