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.
RIIIIIIIGGGGGHTTT.
The GOP’s boy Thad Cochran is going to be all over this, I’m sure.
Oldplayer
In the absence of an IRS, how are collections made and who enforces this.
FAIR tax would require a massive bureaucracy, checks sent to everyone, many people will pay more than needed to subsidies the “poor” because it is still progressive and it is not a tax cut for anyone because it is “revenue neutral”
FLAT tax is far superior and simpler
THE FLAT TAX NEVER STAYS FLAT!
First flat income tax was 1% levied on incomes in 1861 and was voted in the next years to expand to more brackets and higher rates. It was ruled unconstitutional. It was resuscitated several years later under President Grant and again it started to mutate to a graduated form of taxation.
You can’t pass a law keeping it flat because of the way the 16th Amendment is written. You may get what you would like in one session of Congress only to see it thrown out the window with the next session of Congress.
The only sensible and actually brilliant solution is to pass the FAIRTAX and follow it with a repeal of the 16th Amendment.
Study here:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FAQs
“FLAT TAX for all.”
Flat Tax still leaves the monster in charge - the IRS.
they would only morph once again into the monster they are now - as they have from when it was first started.
You don’t successfully play with the devil a little - They must be totally and forever abolished.
and put in the FAIR TAX.
That would take all the power out of their hands - more people would start businesses, more jobs, FREEDOM - no reporting how much you make or even where you work. All they have to know is how many people in the house and S.S.no. that’s IT
You pay a fed sales tax at point of purchase, right along with sales tax. You decide how much tax you pay by what you purchase - and remember, second hand goods are not taxed. Buy a next to new car - no tax...
Every cent of your pay check goes into YOU pocket - not one cent taken out.
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer
It would be a mistake to put in place a consumption tax without first making income and wealth taxation at all levels (local, state, federal, international) unconstitutional!
Because, otherwise, we'd sooner or later end up with both kinds of tax.
I would propose an even more radical reformation -
no federal tax will be collected from any individual citizen.
States will be taxed as entities, proportionally based on population.
How the states collect the money to do so is up to them.