[Remember_Salamis]

Please bump accordingly....

[SolidSupplySide]

President Bush has announced he will make tax reform one of his major second-term goals

President Bush appointed former Sen. Connie Mack to head his tax reform commission. Mack is a supply sider and a flat tax proponent.

[vpintheak]

Either the retail tax or flat tax would be better than the current system.

[Willie Green]

The NRST is an inherently regressive form of taxation that is truly despotic.

Long term, it would result in a two-tiered socio-economic stratification of our society.

It is not disimilar to a 21st Century eco-feudal system where the corporate aristocracy invest and expand their property holdings completely tax-free, while the serfs are overburdened with the excessive taxation on consumption and persuaded that it's supposedly "fair" because the consumption taxes are redistributed through the formal social welfare system.

[newsgatherer]

I would like to start following the Fair Tax in our on line paper, Christian-news-in-maine.com if you have a ping list for it, would you add me to it?

Thanks

[eyespysomething]

That's funny, I just commented on that on another thread:

To: rwrcpa1

Linder is the perfect choice to lead the fight for the FairTax! He's the one who has tirelessly brought it up, year after year.

I'm sorry he had his hopes on a leadership position, but hey, he's there for the greater good, right?

5 posted on 01/06/2005 4:57:59 PM EST by eyespysomething (And a happy new year!)
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Linder shut out of coveted position

[ancient_geezer]

"Hastert spokesman John Feehery said the speaker's choice reflected his satisfaction with the job Dreier has done and not dissatisfaction with Linder. He said Hastert wants Linder to focus on his years-long effort to replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax."

One should never forget that Hastert and DeLay both are strong proponents of the Fair Tax Act, HR25.

[simhomer]

It's not how you tax, it's the AMOUNT you tax.

Any system can be good or bad depending on the RATE at which your $$$$ are extracted.

A new tax system is meaningless unless SPENDING is reduced.

New system + higher spending = more taxes under new system.

It's not the system, it's the spending.

[Badray]

Good news ping

[Paul C. Jesup]

Wonder where Speaker Hastert stands on the FairTax? Wonder no more.

He is for it as he stated in page 272 (I think?) of the book he wrote.

[AlGone2001]

I bet that an overhaul of the tax system (and hopefully the NRST by name) will be a major topic of the next state of the union address.

Does anyone know the date of the state of the union?

[HighFlier]

I read an article in Reason magazine that showed (calculated) the tax rates for income earners from somewhere between $10,000 and $200,000. This study included all taxes we endure in every form.

The conclusion - we all paid about the same percentage! So all this rigmarole and expense just to end up with a flat tax anyway.

[moehoward]

bump

[Lurker]

There is no such thing as a 'fair' tax.

L

[Servant of the 9]

The only fair tax is the poll tax.

Divide the budget of the Govt. by the total population, and every person pays that amount.

SO9

[Zon]

What's the value of a person's life? Suffice to say that all are of equal value. The price of government is the value of human life. All people pay should pay the same amount of tax to protect their equally valuable lives. That some people pay more than others is a sign that they are willing to increase the value of their fellow man by enabling government to better protect individual life-and-property rights. Akin to free-market competition. Some people prefer luxurious amenities while others are happy with necessities.

Men and women applying science and business have raised everyone's standard of living. Governments usurp that premise and replace it with bringing equality among people via wealth redistribution schemes. Property tax and public education are critical to the Robin Hood ploy. Steal from the rich and give to the poor while dictating a curriculum that indoctrinates children to accept an establishment status quo. 

The FairTax reverses that trend rapidly, not incrementally. It's the first turn of the snowball rolling down the incremental mountain the parasitical elite created.