IT IS NOT CONSERVATIVE.
If it would support the same amount of spending, what would the point be?
"Screw this - it will never stop. A quarter percent here, an eighth there. A special sur-tax on certain products. We will never see the end.
IT IS NOT CONSERVATIVE."
I agree 100%.
The problem with the idea of Fair Tax or Consumption Tax or National Sales tax is that it ignores a basic fact. The States and the even some Counties and Cities want a share of the workers tax dollars.
A 24% National Sales tax will be supplimented by 6-12% State Sales Tax depending on the state, Counties and large Cities will tack on a 1-8% additional rate depending on area.
The states themselves are just as bad at sucking the workers tits as the federal government. I will bet anyone that you would have a true fight to get them to give up their Property Tax's
I noticed the supporters say that its up to the people to vote those electors out of office if the rates rise in any way. But sadley the elections of the past prove that the public has no intrest in doing those things today or in the future. The disaster in the South in the wake of Katrina proves to me that there are too many people in this country who believes that the Federal Government is their step father and mother. The demands for fedeal assistance and blaiming the government for not helping enough proves that to me.
Do I have the answer.. No.. but I believe that the state and federal governments need to start thinking of reducing their programs because they have grown to the point to where we can not longer substain the bill for them.
>"Screw this - it will never stop. A quarter percent here, an eighth there. A special sur-tax on certain products. We will never see the end."<
Yes, it will, when people see their tax rate right up front when they pay for something...no games. They will expect the line to be held, as opposed to income taxes, which are withheld before people see the money.
>"IT IS NOT CONSERVATIVE."<
and you think income taxes are?
progressive income taxes are a page straight out of Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto". It is one of the main tenements of Communism. Look it up.