[taxcontrol]

Fairtax bad
Flattax good

[Las Vegas Ron]

I agree.

The "prebates" in the Fair Tax is a recipe for disaster and makes absolutely no sense

[JTHomes]

Flat tax is only marginally better than the mess we have now. Any tax on income or personal property amounts to slavery. Retail sales tax appeals to me primarily because it allows us more privacy and anonymity. It works for the most of the states that have it, so I never understand the negative visceral reaction the Fair Tax brings.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Fairtax bad

Flattax good

Please give us your comparison.

[Man50D]

Fairtax bad

Flattax good

The Fair Tax is a flat tax but on consumption instead of productivity with only one rate charged at the point of sale. A flat tax on income is a plank in the Communist Manifesto. To quote "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax".. Marx and Engels understood taxing productivity discourages people from working and forces them to turn to the state for dependence.

This country already tried a flat tax on income and it has turned into the oppressive system we have today. People were taxed 1% on their first $20,000 of income and 7% on income over $500,000 when the 16th Amendment was enacted in 1913. It was essentially a flat tax since so few people earned more than $500,000 in 1913. Another flat tax on income will morph back into the same mutli tiered increasingly complex, indecipherable monstrosity we have today only faster thanks to the thousands of lobbyists that didn't exist in 1913.