Frum needs to get his facts straight....
I am no supporter of Huckabee or Paul, but I notice a lot of the globalist crowd attacks the FairTax
First, it was not devised by the Scientologists. We have had a “FairTax” before....before the start of Income Tax in the early 20th C., we raised almost all of our Federal revenue from taxes on goods (the liberal globalists would call these “tarriffs”). We always had enough revenue to run the Federal govt before the Income Tax
This was well before L Ron Hubbard was born
The income tax was an idea orginated from that friend of capitalism...Karl Marx....one of Marx’s ten points of his Communist Manifesto was an income tax.
The FairTax is a much better way to raise revenue, and, it actually encourages free market economics and free trade. An income tax always stifles growth because it puts limits on how much one can make
Also, the income tax is a way to control people...punish those not in favor of the government...while rewarding its favorites. Government loses that control in a FairTax
Of course, most globalists fear the FairTax, because it takes away control from govts friendly to globalist entities. Many multi-nationals fear a FairTax would promote competition.
There are many honest criticsms of Huckabee and Paul, but whenever I hear someone bashing FairTax or “Populism”....you can bet its always some nutty liberal globalist
On the Fair Tax, most know that I’m a supporter, but I also think that an incremental method of introduction must be devised and that is above my pay-grade. If we are wrong and it turns out to be a disaster, how do we reconstitute a functional method of revenue collection out of thin air?