[Qwackertoo]

Now or Never. Contract with America. Do. It. GOP.

FLAT TAX for all. No write-offs. No exemptions. The Dem’s want fair, give it to ‘em. FAIR TAX.

[dhs12345]

Ya. Like that is going to happen.

That is one thing about government bureaucracies: once they are established, we are stuck with them forever or until the country collapses and we start all over again.

Same with Obamacare — it is here to stay folks. And yes, we are screwed.

[353FMG]

Priebus knows fully well that that is never going to happen, although it is a very good idea if it did.

(1)Good ideas are never accepted by guvmint and (2)guvmint can only increase in size.

[PGR88]

A flat tax, with no deductions would obviate the need for the IRS. Tax calculation would be done on a post-card. Imagine the resources it would free up, and entrepreneurial energy it would release on the country.

At the same time, the tax code is the source of half the corruption and crony-capitalism of government. If it is not businesses and political groups seeking benefits, then as we see with Louis Lerner, it is a weapon to be used.

[taxcontrol]

The solution is representative apportionment.

Congress passes the budget in which they have determined the amount of tax to be raised. That amount is split into two “buckets”, one for Senators and one for Representatives. Each bucket is then divided down to determine the per Senator and per Representative amount. Each state is then assessed an amount equal to the sum of the amount for their two Senators and the amount equal to the total of all Representatives. States are then free to collect taxes how they wish to pay for that tax amount. Some states may wish to tax sales or income or something else.

[Ray76]

Repeal the 16th Amendment.

[GeronL]

Do you really trust RINO’s to come up with a “better system”?

[Billthedrill]

Great idea but no votes, I’m afraid. Pity.

[ConservativeInPA]

Imagine no income tax, no business tax, no corporate taxes. A flat consumption tax after the repeal of the 16th amendment. America will become the home of nearly every major business in world. Jobs will boom. No nation would be able to compete with us.

[exit82]

Federal Sales tax.

Everybody pays.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

Red meat for the conservatives that just got defecated on in Mississippi last night by the GOP Establishment.

[Repeal The 17th]

I would support repeal of the 16th amendment
and replacing it with a national retail sales tax
(not the “fair tax” and not the “flat tax”)
that would be collected by the states on all retail sales and services.

Why don’t I like the “fair tax”?
because of all the fall-de-rall around the “prebate”.

Why don’t I like the flat tax?
Because the federal government would still would have to keep up with
individual citizens and their income and the IRS would still be required.

[RoosterRedux]

This is the time to do it. If not now...when?

[Taxman]

Well, FairTaxers, what say you to this “out of left field” and totally unexpected turn of events?

We all know that the ONLY way to abolish the IRS is to replace the income tax with the FairTax!

Did the Republicans just now get the memo?

Has our time come, at last?

Has someone finally convinced the Pubbies that FairTax is a winning issue?

Let us push them along!

http://www.fairtax.org

[Osage Orange]

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus

I've NO confidence in ANYTHING this guy says....

[RayChuang88]

When you consider what is totally wrong with the income tax system:

1. 30,000 tax lobbyists--HALF the lobbyists in Washington, DC--fighting for every scrap of a tax loophole. And you get political corruption on a huge scale over this.
2. The result is a tax code over 74,000 pages long so complex that it makes James Joyce's Finnegans Wake almost easy to read in comparison. Even the IRS can't figure out much of the tax code!
3. The sheer complexity means exorbitant yearly compliance costs, estimated by some economists to soon approach US$500 BILLION per year (and climbing fast in each subsequent year, especially with the imposition of Obamacare mandates through the tax code).
4. It also encourages the outsourcing of millions of jobs, thousands of factories, and hundreds of corporate headquarters for tax avoidance reasons. Care to explain why Apple manufactures its products in China, and why Google has to used that highly-complex and expensive Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich accounting scheme to lower its tax bill?
5. It results in (by some estimates) around US$15 TRILLION in American-owned liquid assets sitting in offshore financial centers and other foreign banks for tax avoidance reasons (care to explain all those "banks" in the Cayman Islands, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, and so on? Or why Apple has 70% of its US$100+ billion liquid asset reserve outside the USA?).
6. Government uses the tax code as a political instrument to favor or punish political constituencies as little as ONE taxpaying entity. The recent scandal using the IRS to target conservative 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) groups is clear proof of this.
7. Because the IRS needs to know intimate details of personal and business financial records in tax return filings, there are potentially serious issues with invasion of privacy. Care to explain why former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's private tax returns ended up in the offices of Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)?
8. The IRS assumes you're guilty of tax evasion, and you end up having less rights than most common criminals!

This is why we need radical solutions like this:

[Maurice Tift]

  I'm not sure it's really that difficult to abolish the IRS. If there was legislation that called for the IRS to lose all of their records and not just their emails, then they're effectively out of business.

[ExCTCitizen]

Hmmmm....interesting, very interesting...

Wish I had a pic of Artie Johnson...when he said that on Laugh In.

[Jet Jaguar]

Yes.