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To: Mark was here
We need to reduce the size of the government, not shift taxes around, in some sort of scheme to get the other guy to pay.

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The Fair Tax will reduce the size of government because the IRS will be eliminated.

Fairness is taxing everyone equally, then folks are free to earn as much as they want with out government leaches stealing a percentage of anything.

Everybody paid almost the same amount when our current tax code was enacted October 3, 1913. The tax ranged from merely 1% on the first $20,000 of taxable income and was only 7% on incomes above $500,000. In the beginning, hardly anyone had to file a tax return because the tax did not apply to the vast majority of America's working citizens. For example, in 1939, 26 years after the Sixteenth Amendment was adopted, only 5% of the population, counting both taxpayers and their dependents, was required to file returns. Today, more than 80% of the population is under the income tax. Creating a similar tax code will result in the same oppressive mess we have today.

35 posted on 04/14/2006 5:06:26 PM PDT by Man50D
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To: Man50D
The Fair Tax will reduce the size of government because the IRS will be eliminated.

Let's see, that's all of 0.001% of Federal expenditures.

Wow, let's risk the entire US economy going into the tank for that little piece of tripe!

43 posted on 04/14/2006 7:54:13 PM PDT by balrog666 (There is no freedom like knowledge, no slavery like ignorance. - Ali ibn Ali-Talib)
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