Posted on 07/28/2007 5:37:08 AM PDT by Man50D
Former Senator Fred Thompson came to Houston to attend a fundraiser as he considers throwing his hat into the ring for the 2008 presidential primaries. A small rally was held at the airport for his arrival, and FairTax supporters were out in some force.
FairTax.org is determined to put the FairTax on the national agenda during this election cycle, and to that end, supporters are asking each candidate and potential candidate "The Question": "If Congress passed the FairTax Act and you were President, would you sign the bill into law?" Despite an enormous amount of jostling from the crowd and media people, we were able to get his answer on videotape. Click here to watch the video.
To see where the other candidates stand on the FairTax, click here to go to the Presidential Candidates' Scorecard.
What's he saying?I dunno! Everything is derived from taxes?...Were it not for taxes we'd have nothing?...I dunno?
So do you, plus your income taxes.Only in your mind...unless of course you can prove it...You'll be the first.
Check out the Frequently Asked Questions section -- #38
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq
So the dealer will be paying the same tax and the customer will not be paying income tax or sales tax on his purchase. Of course, the dealer never paid income tax so it looks like a tax loss rather than tapping the black market for its share of taxes.Yea, I'm getting tired of waiting in lines behind all those druggies and illegals buying cars, furniture, appliances, houses. They're living in opulence buying all that stuff with their tax free wages and drug money. Don't take my word for it. Drive through their neighborhoods and see for yourself.
Isn't it funny how soon the Fairtaxers forget about the "prebate" when they start talking about drug dealers?...As if druggies won't get one (or more) themselves along with the ol' lady's welfare check and HER "prebate" to buy their "necessities".
Moreover, concurrent with the repeal of the income tax, a constitutional amendment repealing the 16th Amendment and prohibiting an income tax will be pushed through Congress for ratification by the states (filed as HJR 16 in the 109th Congress).LOL! Right, where is the law enacting that "concurrent" action written? Who's going to "push it through Congress?"...Charlie Rangel?...Nancy Pelosi?...Barney Frank?
It's a lie...period.
Come to Florida. Spend lots and lots of money. We like our sales tax. :)
Where taxes are withheld, tax avoidance is close to nonexistent. Income taxes relying on self reporting of income have an avoidance rate of about 50%. It appears that opportunity plays a large part in tax compliance. The FairTax provides equal opportunity to every customer.
Where do you get this figure? I can tell you, that's simply not the case in FL. I have been both a wholesaler and a retailer. Do people sometimes barter services and not declare it? Sure, but it requires a degree of trust between small business owners, and the first guy to receive services usually gets the better end of the deal. Barter isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Nevertheless, that's less than a drop in the bucket of what people spend annually. You can't barter at the grocery store, or WalMart.
Income tax is evil, wrong, likely unconstitutional, and must be eliminated.
How on earth can anyone justify taking money from me before I even see it?
I don’t know much about the fair tax (yes I’ll learn), but I do know under the current system of sales and business taxes there is a huge load on small business for the collection and reporting of tax.
It's a lie...period.
If you can take off your blinders for long enough toreally readwhat you are so loudly, and selectively, calling a lie, and try to understand the part you deliberately left out, (quoted below)there is a slight possiblity that you might be able to figure out what these first few words say:
"No current supporter of the FairTax would support the FairTax unless the entire income tax is repealed."
And you might even see that it answers your question.
Now that wasn't very hard, was it?
'The largest source of the tax gap is the “cash economy,” taxable payments that are not required to be reported to the IRS by third parties. Employers, for example, send W2 forms to the IRS to report the wages paid to their employees, and banks and financial institutions send 1099s to report interest, dividends, and proceeds from the sale of financial assets. But payments to contractors and tips, for example, only need to be reported by the recipient of the payment. As Olson explains, “Where taxable payments are reported to the IRS by third parties, the IRS generally collects well over 90 percent of the tax due. Where taxable payments are not reported to the IRS by third parties, compliance drops precipitously to a range from about 20 percent to about 68 percent, depending on the type of transaction.”[3] In particular, the noncompliance rate ranges from 1 percent for wages, salaries and tips to 57 percent for small business income and 72 percent for farm income."
http://www.cbpp.org/4-10-06tax3.htm
I can tell you, that's simply not the case in FL.
What happened to Florida's attempt to tax services?
Well no, its not unconstitutional. The 16th amendment was passed as a result of the decision in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., which redefined "direct tax".
How on earth can anyone justify taking money from me before I even see it?
Because expierence shows that if you get it first, you are less likely to pay the tax.
Will the FairTax prohibit drug dealers from buying used houses, used cars, and "estate" jewelry?
"No current supporter of the FairTax would support the FairTax unless the entire income tax is repealed."Well duh! That's actually written in the Fairtax legislation.And you might even see that it answers your question.
Now that wasn't very hard, was it?
But maybe you don't understand repealing the tax code has nothing to do with repealing the 16th amendment.
Once again. To state that there would be a concurrent act, if the Fairtax is passed, to repeal the 16th amendment is a lie...period.
“Where do you see that in the FairTax proposal?”
It’s pretty clear.... I have saved money that has a set amount of purchasing power. The FairTax subjects every penny of that saving to the “fair” tax of 30%. In other words, I get a massive on every penny I have saved after tax...
Nothing like punishing those who have been fiscally responsible to this point and rewarding those who have been irresponsible...
bump for later.... just got back from a loooooooong trip!
Just as bad, it has business taxes - which just end up hidden in prices of goods at retail.
The flat income tax ends up being 32.1%.
We’ve already tried the Flat Tax — it started with just two tiers; back in 1913 it was 1% on the low end, and 7% on the high end. In 1917, the high end was all the way up to 77%. In 1986, we had “simplification” and went back to the two tier flat tax system.
The current Flat Tax proposal temporarily simplifies, just like in 1986, but it CHANGES nothing: the IRS, the tax codes (current and the flat tax), corporate taxation and embedded cascading taxes all stay in place, and we still will have NO CHOICE.
The Fair Tax actually CHANGES all these things.
Demand the Fair Tax. www.OperationOffTheFence.org.
Okay. Now think about a 30% added to the price of goods and services - do you think people would be inclined to look for ways to avoid paying the tax?
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