That did look interesting, but I caution people with limited resources: the site locked my computer up.
The site has an interesting feature in which it shows where the votes are coming from, or at least the last 500 of them. Most of these are from the southeast and on up through the midwest.
Someone in Ohio likes the tax code just the way it is. Probably either an IRS employee or a CPA.
The FairTax has moved out to a commanding lead - not surprising.Not surprising because fantasy is almost always better than reality.
FairTax ping
You may be an income tax lover if you:
1. …believe that taxing the creation of wealth is better for the economy than taxing the wealth when it is spent.
2. …believe that returning people’s tax payments to them is welfare.
3. …have no problem with a tax code that is wordier than the Bible.
4. …believe the IRS is a good department and does a good job.
5. …believe that the worst thing you could do is tax the wealth of old geezers who are living off of the sweat of the younger workforce.
6. …love to tell everyone you see that the FairTax was created by Scientologists.
7. …believe that what Bruce Bartlett says is the gospel and that scores of other credentialed economists are only paid shills.
8. …have a habit of going to online chat rooms and posting insults about the “Fairy Taxers.”
9. …think that calculating a tax the same way as the tax it is replacing is dishonest.
10. …think the economy has always been fine under the income tax.
11. …call the FairTax a “cult” because you can’t think of anything else to say.
12. …believe that cutting one tax by 25% and raising another by the same amount is inflationary.
13. …think inflation is caused by high taxes.
14. …think Milton Friedman is an idiot.
15. …have a soft spot in your heart for European style VAT’s.
16. …wrote the ten planks to the Communist Manifesto.
17. …think the prebate is Marxist but not the Communist Manifesto.
18. …sell some sort of tax advantaged product.
19. …claim you clamor for tax reform but have no earthly idea how to do that.
20. ...howl in outrage when the BATF violates the 2nd Amendment but have no concerns when the IRS violates the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.
21. ...believe that having the bottom 50% of income earners pay little or nothing to the government has the best chance of limiting that government.
23. ...think that people give to charity just because there is an income tax.
24. ...believe there is nothing you can do about congress.
25. ...believe that the only reason people buy houses is to take advantage of the mortgage deduction.
Thanks for the ping, Phil.
Went to site, waited patiently for all to load, and voted for the FairTax.
Glad to see that the FairTax leads by a significant margin.
I wonder how many anti-FairTax votes the squirrels can muster?
BTTT
How about no tax with the replacement of a yearly citizen fee paid annually. Everyone pays the same dollar amount. No tracking my life.