Do you know how to frame a roof? Just kidding but not by much....I support the Fair Tax and can see a real chance for economic recovery if something like this ever passed.
I fear it won't because we have a couple of generations of managers who have spent their entire careers either totally ignoring or avoiding government tax policies by going as far off shore as possible or on the other hand fulfilling the reporting requirements imposed on them in triplicate.
Couple this with a bias against manual labor in this country and we find that eliminating the white collar bureaucrats in private and public sectors probably will put more people out of work than continuing to croak manufacturing.
Sorry for the boast. It was awful actually. I also built a house, took several years.
As for my background and any other like it, one thing that distinguishes them is that projects are looked at in years, sometimes decades. For example, the FairTax is a thesis in work. That means we don’t expect it to materialize immediately although it could happen sooner than expected. Rather, we expect it to take years more. Poetic justice would have it passed in 2013.
It took the Income tax 52 years (1861 - 1913) to become legal.
What the FairTax needs now is a training academy to generate cadres of Americans who understand it inside and out. I am working on it. And then such cadres need to fan out and get the public onboard.
Grassroots efforts to date have been effective as an average 800 people per day are joining AFFT. But many of these members are battered in debate by those skilled in obfuscatory tactics. Lobbyists will protect their kingdoms by sending out messengers skilled at causing confusion.
Palin is stupid doncha know? And the FairTax will never work. It is a scam.
The soldiers of the Income tax gaming industry comprise about 25,000 beltway lobbyists of former IRS and Congressional Officials, a revolving door between these firms and federal government is firmly established.
These 25,000 are up against 144,000,000 individual filers. It’s a battle of numbers between the castle guard and the serfs.