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| cmoehle | Oct 9 2005, 08:35 PM Post #76 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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My mother asked tonight, what will happen to social security under the Fair Tax? I answered it goes away like all other taxes. Then how would it be paid for? The sales tax has been calculated to include payment of it. In the book, I remember Boortz and Linder saying, the tax system needs replacing, SS reform, but one thing at a time. |
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater | |
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| MDPD6320 | Oct 9 2005, 09:41 PM Post #77 |
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Frank - Gainesville, Florida
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I get the feeling that a simple idea is being made into a complex matter because people don't want to understand regardless of the clarity of the argument. So let me approach the fairness of the fair tax as opposed to the un-fairness of the progressive income tax from a different perspective. 1. Only wage earners who receive a W-2 or contract workers who receive a 1090 pay taxes. Period. 2. If you own a cash business you skim cash off the top and pay NO TAXES on it. If you get paid by check you have it made out to you personally, and take it to the bank it was drawn on to cash. PAY NO on taxes on it. Declare a nominal amount at he years end and pay a few dollars tax. 3. Corporations Pay NO TAXES. Pass on predetermined taxes a cost of doing business. The public buying their product pays the taxes. 4. Dope dealers, money launders, illegal gambling, prostitutes, pimps, thieves, fences and anyone making money by way of an illegal activity pay NO TAXES. 5. Add to this the estimated five billion dollars spent on income tax compliance each year, AND PASSED ON TO CONSUMERS, and you have a tidy sum of uncollected taxes and taxes paid by other than those who owe them. The bottom line is the progressive income tax is unfair, discriminatory, too complex, too easily avoided and collects less than it should. For these reasons alone it deserves to be scrapped, and unless someone can propose a better solution, and feel free to do so, I'll continue to support the Fair Tax. |
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| cmoehle | Oct 10 2005, 04:24 AM Post #78 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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And for the rest of your argument, Bruce...
If that's your argument against how the Fair Tax differs from a VAT, I don't understand. Are you arguing the Fair Tax is a VAT? A VAT applies a sales tax on purchases made during production, all of which hidden costs are passed on to the final purchasing consumer. With the Fair Tax, the only time a sales tax is paid is on the final purchase by a consumer. The difference clear. For example, the purchases of wood and bricks and nails and what all used to build a house are not taxed; the purchase of the new house is taxed--once, if you turn around and resell, the next buyers purchase is not taxed.
I agree, the sales tax you envision is not a good thing. But with the Fair Tax a single rate is applied to the purchase of all new goods and services. With it, as you say, if the government needs more revenue, they can adjust that rate, it's very simple, and, importantly, very visible, for the government will have to explain why it must be raised.
Again, that sort of sales tax that you envsion is not good and doomed to failure. I don't argue that. That is why the Fair Tax is, will be when passed, defined as a single rate on the purchase for consumption of all new goods and services, no exemptions.
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater | |
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| cmoehle | Oct 10 2005, 05:44 PM Post #79 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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No matter how many times I read H.R.25 Fair Tax Act of 2005 (Introduced in House) and S.25 Fair Tax Act of 2005 (Introduced in Senate) I just can't for the life of me find a provision putting some consumables in a list for taxing and others in a list for exemption. I do, however, see where both explicitly state the following: To tax all consumption of goods and services in the United States once, without exception, but only once. |
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| Fr. Mike | Oct 10 2005, 05:49 PM Post #80 |
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I must be dense.
I thought that the only fair tax--was one where everybody else pays it but me. How could it be a fair tax if everybody has to pay it?
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| cmoehle | Oct 10 2005, 06:24 PM Post #81 |
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Chris - San Antonio TX
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Good point. Because then each one of us pays less. Under current income tax codes, "Percent of population filing return...45%." (source) |
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