According to Fred Thompson’s own plan, if I make $99,000 this year (after my allowable deductions), my tax is $9,900, netting me $89,100.
If I make $101,000 (after making the same deductions, my tax is $25,250, netting me $75,750.
Sorry, that doesn’t sound very good to me.
Fred said he would sign the FairTax bill, but then said he was against it. He lost any chance of my support (in the primary) with that flip alone.
Fred NEVER said he would sign the Fair Tax bill. Go back and look at the video. He said that if it ever passed Congress, he'd consider it. He didn't lock himself into something he knows is extremely unlikely.
False, Fred only said he would consider it. In the video the fairtax site put out, they HIGHLY edited it. In the unedited video there was a person in the background screaming about Fred being a CFR and other stuff that was being hauled off during the question, so it is doubtful Fred even heard the question clearly. The fairtax people, retaped a segment and spliced it in so the question could be heard. That is why there was multiple angles that were pieced together.