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To: pigdog

Yes. I'm still puzzled, I admit, about what stake some of these people have in the current tax game that leads them to spend so much time trying to get in the way of any serious reform. People of the kind who cheat the system usually don't spend their time trying to keep the system any particular way. They just plan on cheating any system, whatever it is.


969 posted on 09/11/2005 6:31:00 PM PDT by n-tres-ted (Remember November!)
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To: n-tres-ted

I actually think it's pretty simple. Most of the Squirrels have a "good thing going" in their own mind with the present tax system and believe that they will not be able to evade the FairTax so easily and will therefore NOT have as "good a thing going" under the FairTax.

I believe it is strictly a matter of self-interest ... mostly financial self-interest. It may very well be (and probably is) unjustified since almost ALL economists predict the "rising tide that lifts all boats" via greatly increased economic activity with the FairTax. They're merely shortsighted.


970 posted on 09/12/2005 9:10:28 AM PDT by pigdog
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