[Willie Green]

...the movement for consumption-based taxation has been hijacked by a group of extremists whose principal interest is abolishing the Internal Revenue Service.²¹ They believe that if virtually all federal taxes are abolished and replaced with a retail sales tax like those in the states, then the states can simply collect the federal government's revenue for it, thereby allowing for abolition of the IRS...

²¹ The Church of Scientology originated this legislation as part of a campaign against the IRS because it refused for many years to allow gifts to the church to be deducted as legitimate charitable contributions, on the grounds that it was not a true church. The IRS eventually relented. See Davis (1997) and Starobin (1995) for discussions of the Church of Scientology's role in the sales tax campaign.

Davis, Bob. 1997. "CATS Out of the Bag." World, 12:9 (May 31/June 7).
Starobin, Paul. 1995. "No Returns." National Journal (March 18): 666-671.

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[Zon]

In your mind, how is that relevant? Are you implying that the Church of Scientology spent millions of dollars researching methods of taxation and wrote HR25? Consumption tax idea has been around longer than the Church of Scientology. Be honest or proceed at your own peril.

[Zon]

BTW, your source link is a 404 file not found

[pigdog]

You keep posting such unfounded trash apparently since you have nothing else. The propagandist Bruce Bartlett is the main guy pushing this nonsense trying to make the connection between the Church of Scientology and the FairTax.

Tain't so, Willie - the CATS plan used as the base for such nonsense preceded the FairTax, but the FairTax was generated by a different group with quite different motivation. Bartlett constantly pushes this misinformation when he writes since he promotes a dramatically different tax form (Flat/VAT). Are you trying to tell us that you support his desired tax form? Or do you just enjoy lying to try to trash anything FairTax?