Absolutely!
The real issue is FReedom and Liberty.
In simple terms, whenever the government has first claim to a person’s earnings (as in an income tax), all other tax issues become irrelevant.
The truth is that, under any form of income taxation, you, as an individual, have lost your economic FReedom — you are a slave to the government.
The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution fundamentally altered the relationship of the American people to their government.
Prior to 16th, people were master, government was slave.
After 16th, government was master, people were slaves.
FairTax seeks to right this horrible wrong done to the American people in 1913.
Passing the FairTax will allow and encourage ALL AMERICANS to work, earn, save and invest. And by then taxing, not earnings, but retail sales, at one low, flat rate, the US government will re-establish FReedom and Liberty as an important guiding principle for governance in the 21st Century.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2702227/posts
I posted the above rant yesterday on FR, sent this is an email to Boehner and sent to the Austin Unamerican Statesman editorial page. I seriously doubt if it get published and if it does, I will probably attacked by the radical leftists that inhabit Austin.
Amen Taxman! AMEN!
The fact is that we will never again be a truly FREE people for so long as we continue to abide the communist inspired, class warfare inducing, income tax and the IRS!
You are greatly mistaken if you think the fair tax seeks to right the wrong of the 16th Amendment with respect to working people and their property.
The truth is, Mary and Joe Sixpack, under the alleged fair tax, are enslaved just as they now are, because the proposed tax would tax the sale of the property which Mary and Joe have in their labor.
Now let us examine how this tax upon “property” would affect Mary and Joe Sixpack, ordinary working people. Mary and Joe have two children and find it necessary to earn extra money to pay their bills. Mary baby sits for neighbors in the community and cleans homes on weekends to raise extra money while Joe, who works for a plumbing company as a full-time job, also provides the same plumbing service on his own time to people living in his community to raise extra cash.
Under the alleged fair tax Mary and Joe Sixpack’s inalienable right to sell the property they have in their labor becomes a taxable event, and, they must first register with government to sell the property they have in their labor, collect a federal tax for Congress, file federal sales tax returns 12 freaken times a year under the penalty of perjury, and they will be compelled to keep any records Congress may dream up, not to mention the threat of audits which will constantly haunt them if they dare to sell the property they have in their labor.
Funny thing is, our founding fathers, during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, were fully aware of the oppressive nation of taxes imposed upon property and this is the very reason for our founding fathers demanding in our Constitution that No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Bottom line is, the alleged fairtax is a proposed massive expansion of what Congress may tax while keeping alive Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes.
JWK