Yes I am in the process of reading the fairtax book. And the reform plan has soo many advantages. Then why arent we trying it?!
2007-12-27 11:02:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The rich would lose too many loopholes. They currently pay less percentage of their income than the middle class earner.
2007-12-27 11:05:05 · answer #1 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Is that the one that is a national sales tax?
If I remember right. . .
The UK did something similar. They said they would repeal the income tax once the national sales tax was up and running. Now they have both. Fair tax would still have you being taxed as much it would just be in the back-door. Plus you would have to disclose all your purchases and give up a lot of pivacy. I agree with the other poster. The only fair tax is no tax. This nation got along fine for a long time with less than 1% tax on the gross domestic product. Now its something like 25% plus with something like 50% plus burden on the citizens. The income tax effectively makes most of us slaves. We work for the people that control the government and they give us an allowance so they dont have the chore of providing us with food and housing. Meanwhile all those tax dollars are laundered to government vendors who take a 1000% markup. If we got rid of all the corruption and educated our population I think we could live a lot better on taxes of under 1%.
2007-12-27 19:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by - 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
at this point in time a "fair tax" has not been proposed by anyone. no one in power, or attempting to be, wants a truly fair tax. our tax system needs reform but it probably won't happen anytime soon.
Super Man - you make some very good points but you like many are too extreme to accomplish much. we did not fight the English to not pay taxes, the problem was taxes with no representation. the same problem we have now. taxes are a necessary evil, we must however reform them and the government that lives off of them.
2007-12-27 19:13:54 · answer #3 · answered by michr 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Congress would lose the ability to control people through the tax code.That's why so many of them are against it.
I think the fair tax rocks!
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_main
That's why I'm supporting Huckabee.
2007-12-27 19:17:47 · answer #4 · answered by Michael 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"NO" tax is the only fair tax!
We fought the English not to be taxed.
This country made it for 160 years without income taxes.
Even when taxes were proposed they were going to put a 10% cap on them, but who would dare to try more than 10% was the response. The public would hang us! Then only to get the debt paid and they're out of here!
Alaskan's get paid! not taxed!
What are we in the lower 48 states? Our government thinks we're worth less than turds!
www.earthrights.net/docs/oilrent that’s oilrent
www.pfd.state.ak.us
LinkTV BBC expose on US officials and lobby money
They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!
They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!
They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!
They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!
They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, and news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!
They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!
So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!
They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!
The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.
It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement, abysmally poor judgment, lies, cheating, thefts, back stabs, corkscrews, and dirty deals! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!
LinkTV BBC expose on US officials and lobby money
The Flim Flam Man starring George C. Scott
2007-12-27 19:13:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
you can bet, if they have to put th4e word " fair " in the title it is anything but fair... Patriot Act...very un-American, you get my drift, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is, abolish the IRS, and base taxes on revenue only
2007-12-27 19:13:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because its a horrable plan.... really.
you have to think what is better for america as a hole, not just yourself.
2007-12-27 19:09:07 · answer #7 · answered by TEXASmommy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋