Posted on 11/22/2007 6:45:51 PM PST by Ouderkirk
What REALLY is a waste of time is for those of us who believe in the FairTax to debate with those of you who profit FRom the income tax at the expense of the rest of us.
A “cult” indeed. You don’t even have a clue as to what a cult is.
We will never be a FRee people so long as we have an income tax and the IRS!
Good point. I’ll be interested to see how Logical me responds.
The FAIR tax doesn’t get rid of the IRS. There will still be a federal tax collection agency. Indeed, the FAIR tax is more complicated than the current system, and gives Congress even greater opportunity to distort the economy by manipulating tax rates on every individual product sold in America.
H.R 25 abolishes the IRS; read the bill!
The federal tax collection agency established by the FairTax will interface with states, not citizens.
You got some ‘splainin’ to do re: “. . .the FAIR tax is more complicated than the current system, and gives Congress even greater opportunity to distort the economy by manipulating tax rates on every individual product sold in America.”
BTW, I don’t buy into Adler’s or Gale’s anti-FairTax arguments — they are shot through with scare tactics, suppositions and hypotheticals.
But, that is what I would expect FRom income tax whores.
Profoundly weak academic work, if you ask me.
How can a 150 page bill be more complicated than the thousands of pages of Title 26?
Do you have any appreciation for the complexity of each tax that is repealed and replaced by the FairTax?
How can you possibly assert that a simple, single-rate, sales tax that is collected at the point of final consumption is more complex than the sum total of:
The personal income tax
The Corporate Net Income Tax
The FICA and Medicare Tax
The Estate and Gift Tax?
Your assertion is facially ludicrous.
A very complete analysis of this so called increase have concluded that the increase could be anywhere from 0 to 8%. This has been explained by better qualified experts than I and I'm just tired of this pie in the sky.
I’ve read some of them, and, I’ll repeat: they are shot through with scare tactics, suppositions and hypotheticals.
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