[Eaglewatcher]

Bob has a great grasp of the situation!

[Man50D]

Excellent Post! Fair Tax ping!

[coloradan]

Looking at tax alternatives

Like, reducing spending? Limited government? Government agents being volunteers (as in public service)?

[Tzimisce]

They are not going to change the tax code - not ever.

That is how they lord over the rest of us. It's where the true power lies in Congress.

The chance of them reforming the tax code are about as good as them actually doing something about illegal immigration.

[robertpaulsen]

"Your time is worth something even if you use ..."

Yeah, right. I'm really getting tired of these same old arguments -- if your time is worth $50/hour and it took you six hours to do your taxes, it's costing you ....

If the average Joe didn't have to fill out tax forms every April 14th, he'd be plopped down on the couch watching Wheel of Fortune.

[robertpaulsen]

"Dramatically reduce the costs of goods and services by 20 to 30 percent. Allows you to keep 100 percent of your paycheck, pension and Social Security payments."

One or the other, not both. If the employer gives you your whole paycheck rather than sending a portion of it to the IRS, his "cost" of business remains the same.

He may be able to reduce prices somewhat due to decreased compliance costs, but even that is overrated.

"Bob has a great grasp of the situation!"

This guy grasps nothing, other than the ability to bull$hit. He'd have us believe that costs decrease 20-30%, our paycheck increases 20-30%, AND we all get a monthly stipend from the government.

And I got a bridge in Brooklyn.

[ancient_geezer]

A Taxreform bump for you all.

If anyone would like to be added to this ping list let me know.

John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.

H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer for additional information:

• search: "national sales tax" OR "national retail sales tax" OR "fairtax"

[bog]

Are you from Edmond?

[maine-iac7]

Take a look at the Fair Tax Web site for answers to all your questions, http://www.fairtax.org/. I found many articles about how the tax would work in detail, and how this tax proposal handles families at or below the poverty level. It appears about every question or issue is addressed in the Fair Tax legislation. Being responsible to properly fill out several pages of forms just plain stinks. In today’s world, we need and deserve a better method, a more efficient method. Gains in efficiency alone will be a great benefit. Eliminating paperwork, employees and delivering that money to the federal coffers more efficiently is an idea that is over due. We must eliminate the IRS as we know it today

If we get this through next April 15th will be just another spring day

if you email this link

http://www.geocities.com/cmcofer/ftax.html

to just 10 people - better to everyone on your email list - and they mail it to 10 - we can reach millions of people - indeed, do the math - by the 7th round - it's 10 million people. (Now probably not everyone will email to 10 - but for those who email to more - it can fill the gap...include the note to call and/or send notice to your congress critters that we demand this - and they'll sit up and take notice.

This is the biggest chance at returning government to us - and making the 'representatives' true representatives once again instead of pompous, puffed up potentates ruling from the top

This is the ONLY chance we will ever get...the libs know that under a no IRS system, socialism doesn't stand a chance,