I yield your point, John. Under the FairTax, Joe and Mary Sixpack will have to start collecting the FairTax and filing tax returns.
Given your point of view, that is a bad thing.
FRom my point of view, it is a good thing, because it is illegal under the present system, and will be illegal under the FairTax system, for Joe and Mary Sixpack to work under the table for cash in the Black Market economy.
Several benefits will accrue to Joe and Mary: 1.) They will not have to file annual federal and state tax returns ever again under the FairTax; 2.) Until the SS and Medicare systems are changed (as I believe they should be), Joe and Mary’s business income will increase their SS benefits; 3.) They will be compensated for their administrative burden, and; 4.) They will not be breaking the law.
On the whole, John, the benefits of the FairTax both for America and Joe and Mary Sixpack far, far outweigh the drawbacks.
There is no perfect system of taxation.
FairTax is far better than the present system, and that is the objective — a fairer, simpler, less costly system of taxation which taxes every American at the same rate and restores a measure of FReedom and Liberty to all.
I yield your point, John. Under the FairTax, Joe and Mary Sixpack will have to start collecting the FairTax and filing tax returns.
Yes, they sure will, and twelve times a freaken year. And Mary and Joe Sixpack will still be subject to audits and must keep any records Congress may dream up, simply for selling the property they have in their labor. Sounds pretty much like our existing system except the misery occurs 12 times a year! And let us not forget that Mary and Joe not only get to send a 23 percent tax to uncle sugar on the sale of the property they have in their labor, but they also get to pay another 23 percent tax upon their purchases.
And let us not forget if H.J. RES 16 were adopted as written and the 16th Amendment were repealed, Congress would maintain the power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes which I documented in IN POST NO. 49
Seems to me the alleged fair tax is a very clever proposal which would enlarge the subject matter which Congress may tax, not to mention it would create the largest entitlement in America’s history under its family consumption allowance and also create a massive voting block dependent upon a monthly government check who will have a vested interest in voting for our PROGRESSIVE DOMESTIC ENEMY CROWD who will constantly promise to increase the month entitlement check during federal elections. I guess that is why the ringleaders of the proposal call their tax a “progressive” tax.
Let me also point out H.R. 25 happens to be a massive redistribution of wealth in view of the fact the those who are already on the public dole and not gainfully employed get a monthly bonus, the family consumption entitlement, which is taxed away from Mary and Joe.
My feeling is, our founding fathers got the federal tax system right and I my suggestion is to return to our Constitution’s original tax plan, as our founders intended it to operate, and that could be accomplished by adding the following 32 words to our Constitution:
The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money
JWK
If we can make the majority of America’s families dependent upon a federal government check, [the alleged fair tax’s family consumption entitlement] we can then bribe them for their vote, keep ourselves in power and keep the remaining portion of America’s productive population enslaved to pay the bills ___Our Washington Establishment’s Marxist game plan, a plan to establish a federal plantation and redistribute the bread which America’s labor and business has produced.