Posted on 04/18/2014 1:50:16 PM PDT by Pelham
I have studied the fair tax and consider it far worse than a flat tax and on par with our current tax mess. No thank you.
The 47 percent layabouts, government grifters, illegal immigrants, dead voters.
Uh Huh. So name one thing in which it is ‘far worse’.
The entire fairtax rebate system falls apart in states with a sales tax and no income tax. It makes a strange kind of sense to me but the complexity is not so distant from the original laws implementing the current income tax. With tweaks added for those states the fairtax gets ever more complex. And then the requirment for still more tweaks invites the critters to layer on the “refinements.”
I’m a big believer in user fees to fund goverment infrastructure. The tech is here to track your road usage. Pay for it every month. Likewise parks, parking lots etc.
The national defense requires a flattax every year, from everybody.
Double taxation
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