One primary issue regarding a flat tax. It still makes you, me and everyone else a target of our government. It also allows the government to have access to all of your private information.
A consumption tax like the fair tax is the way to go. It is really important to learn about the fair tax and what it means, what it fixes and how it will impact your life.
Some hi-level points:
1) It eliminates the IRS
2) It eliminates all paperwork
3) It eliminates the entire process of people making business decisions based on tax impact - huge problem
4) It taxes the illegal money
5) It taxes you on what you take out of society...you are not punished for savings.
6) It will eliminate the waste currently imposed on our tax system that requires the equivalent of over 3,000,000 full time workers per year.
7) Products that exist today are inflated around 20-25% currently because of tax cost to businesses, the fair tax would basically replace that and prices would remain the same.
8) 65 million visitors to the US every year would participate in the tax revenue for our country
9) Business would be able to better compete and would revitalize lost industries and bring them back here.
10) We would go from the #2 most tax expensive country for businesses to the least tax expensive place for businesses
11) It would encourage about $13 trillion in US assets to return to our shores that are currently offshore.
12) The key and it is worth repeating, you would no longer be a target of our government, you would no longer have to give up so much of your private information, you would no longer have to worry about retro-active punishments because you work so hard to earn your place.
Regardless sooner or later our survival is going to require the adoption of a consumption based tax. A tax revolt is in progress in this country and we will force changes in our government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT6D78uG6-s
Great video...Linder starts at about 31 minutes into it. Worth watching it.
FairTax is a NO BRAINER!
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