Posted on 05/23/2013 7:42:09 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
Americans For Fair Taxation® (AFFT), outraged by the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) continued political abuse and intimidation of citizens and organizations, is calling on Congress to immediately enact HR 25 / S 122, the FairTax® Act of 2013 and phase out the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). "No person or group is safe from IRS targeting; everyone is a bull's eye," said AFFT spokesperson Cynthia T. Canevaro.
She added, "The agency, with over 90,000 employees and an annual budget in excess of $12 billion, has historically been the ultimate tool of extreme political manipulation by politicians of both major parties. That's exactly what our Founding Fathers feared."
"These types of abuses of are nothing new," said Dan Mastromarco, tax attorney and co-author of HR 25 / S 122. He added, "In 1819, Former Chief Justice John Marshall warned in McCulloch v. Maryland that, 'An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy.' The FairTax Act is the only way in which Congress can once and for all eliminate the harassment, political exploitation and selective enforcement against perceived dissidents. It levels the playing field and redistributes power to the citizens who pay the taxes."
The FairTax Plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with a national retail sales tax, a "prebate" to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality and, through companion legislation, the repeal of the 16th Amendment, which authorized the creation of the income tax.
"Congress has enabled IRS activities with more than 5,000 code changes in just 11 years, and even expanded their scope to include enforcement of major provisions of Obamacare," said Canevaro. "Congress created this problem. They now have an opportunity to correct it by enacting the FairTax Plan and asking the President to join them in signing the measure into law."
About Americans For Fair Taxation®
AFFT was formed in 1995. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(4), nonpartisan, grassroots organization solely dedicated to providing education on the FairTax Plan (HR 25 / S 122) to all members of the public, elected and appointed public officials and candidates for elected office – regardless of party affiliation. AFFT does not advocate the election or defeat of any candidate for public office and does not favor any candidate, political party, or incumbent over another. For more information, visit www.fairtax.org
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The FAIR tax would give us an IRS bureaucracy larger and more intrusive than the one we have now.
Better a flat tax than the so-called “FAIR” tax.
IMHO, the Fair Tax is okay. But I’m afraid it’s complicated enough (prebate, etc.) that Low Info voters won’t/can’t understand it.
If we’re gonna make radical changes in the tax system, I think a flat tax, with a provision that make it almost impossible to move the rate up, would be simpler and have a better chance of passage.
Of course, the problem with both of these plans, which virtually insures neither will be enacted, is the large number of lobbyists, tax attorneys, etc. that would be without work.
The IRS is the US government’s primary means of controlling the social structure as well as doing the bidding of those who own the Federal Reserve. The only way to ever eliminate the IRS is to dismantle the US government.
Ridiculous assertion. There are roughly 10x as many "income earners" as there retail points of sale.
YES! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
I know you heard that on the internet (where no one ever lies) but I'm afraid it's simply not true.
One of the central parts of the Fair Tax legislation abolishes the IRS and the sixteenth amendment. Your federal taxes would be paid at the cash register, just like state sales taxes are now. Yes, there would still be a federal agency charged with collecting those tax monies, but it wouldn't resemble the IRS in any way, shape, or form.
“Fair Tax” reads about the same as “Compassionate Conservatism” in my mind.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, is more “Fair” than the Flat Tax. “Fair” Tax is just more Statist Politician smoke and mirrors, more Yale/Harvard/D.C. Policy Wonk mental masturbation.
Flat Tax. Period. End of sentence. Now go to bed.
No, you’re being ridiculous. There are far more individual transactions for the IRS to monitor under the so-called “FAIR” tax system than there are taxpayers. You seem ignorant of the way the so-called “FAIR” tax works. It’s not just retail outlets that the IRS would have to monitor, but all of the transactions conducted by the middlemen in between. We’re talking about billions of transactions for the IRS to monitor.
And your new FAIR tax compliance agency would be far larger and more intrusive than our current IRS.
The problem with a Flat Tax, is that we'd still have the 16th Amendment and the IRS. A flat tax also wouldn't do anything to prevent politicians from playing around with the tax bracket to reward their favored constituencies, while punishing the productive class.
With the Fair Tax, everyone pays at the cash register. Everyone would have skin in the game. That fact would make it politically impossible for politicians to monkey with the rates, or raise rates on selected segments of the population.
The other fundamental difference between the Fair Tax and the Flat Tax, is that the former taxes consumption, while the latter still taxes production. That is a key difference, and one that should be deeply appreciated by conservatives.
The FAIR tax is not a retail tax.
And at a very basic level, even if fully implemented as its authors intend, the Fair Tax rewards employee types at the expense of small business owners, who would be punished with another huge pile of record-keeping paperwork and tax remittances in addition to the state and city sales taxes they already have to deal with. The IRS would start auditing every small business in America every year, trying to find or manufacture evidence of secret cash sales or off-the-book transactions, while the employee types would be one step further removed than they already are (courtesy of withholding) from any need to feel the weight of the excess government they keep voting for.
Yes, it is. A single-stage, single-rate retail sales tax.
Yeah, though it would be kind of a bummer to be a retailer,
it would eliminate the government’s interaction with the individual.
And, for the retailer, it wouldn’t be so bad, anyway - they already collect sales taxes.
No. It wouldn’t.
Plus, the retailer currently pays income taxes, so it’s shifting one tax for another.
Someone just posted a description of it as a VAT,
which it’s not. Only retail sales of new items are taxed.
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