[lewislynn]

In one (#293) the poster made the accusation of wanting "a 40% VAT on top of the existing income tax"...

No such thing that I know of ever came up in conversation...Is there some reason why you couldn't find where that accusation came from?

The other was RobfromGa's opinion that the Fairtax rate was already so high that, his opinion is, if more tax is needed and OUR opinion is the Fairtax would not provide enough revenue then Congress would reinstitute another income tax...Even though, since you brought it up, if it ever became law, rolling the Fairtax into a VAT is not out of the question.

The truth is the Fairtax would not be passed into law as written. I think you know things don't work that way in Congress so it's all moot anyway.

Nice try though.

[higgmeister]

Nice try though.

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Turbopilot on Post 292 said:     "Generally what they want to debate is something like a 40% VAT on top of the existing income tax."

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RobFromGA responded on Post 293:     "You have no idea what you are talking about. How long have you been posting to FairTax threads? I have never seen the discussion you are describing on a single one."

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RobFromGA then said on Post 298:     "The FairTax in my opinion, which I have described in detail throughout many threads, will not be able to generate this amount of revenue and will need to be much higher than advertised. This loss of revenue will cause panic, and the politicians will have to fall back on something that they know works to collect the revenue to keep the old people and orphans from starving and to ensure the Assistant Undersecratary for Feminine Napkin Procurement and his family are able to get their paycheck."

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will not...generate...revenue and will need to be much higher ₌ something like a 40% VAT politicians will ... fall back on something that they know works to collect the revenue ₌ the existing income tax.

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In effect, Rob said the same thing that he told Turbopilot that nobody ever said.

It happens over and over, that Pro-IRS fans will say that the FairTax rate has to be much higher to collect the revenue. Then, that it still will not work and the Evil politicians will pass a Twenty-eighth Amendment to bring back the IRS and income tax in addition to a keeping he failed Mega-Sales Tax, in effect having both King Kong and Godzilla preying on starving Americans.