[taxcontrol]

Yawn - feel good legislation.

Tax COLLECTION is not the problem. Spending is the problem.

[Adams]

Seriously? Tax collection is “not a problem”?
I beg to differ. I consider it a HUGE problem when the government has the authority to comb through what was at one time considered private information: my personal finances. It is anathema to liberty to continue to allow this type of government intrusion into our personal lives.

[Defend Liberty]

Tax COLLECTION is not the problem. Spending is the problem.

They're both a problem. The federal income tax code is a huge and growing problem with a tax code of more than 67,500 pages that is so complex and convoluted even the IRS answers questions incorrectly 50% of the time.

It is a problem when people have their hard earned money taken form their paychecks and dividend checks before they see those checks. The IRS is a major problem as they and their court system presume a person guilty until proven innocent and can peer into every aspect of a person's personal life through a multitude of forms that are filed annually or quarterly.

[CSM]

“Tax COLLECTION is not the problem. Spending is the problem.”

I agree and I would also agree that the fairtax does absolutely nothing in itself to address spending. That said, I like that it would hit every voter in the head with every purchase the cost of government. It would bring the cost of government to the forefront of visibility. As things are now, so many people have no idea of the taxes they actually pay. There is no accontability because the true cost of government is hidden beneath multiple layers of nonsense.

By giving the electorate a clear vision of the cost of government spending, I’d wager that spending reductions would be demanded by the large majority of voters.

How do you get the majority to support spending reductions when they don’t see the effect of that spending?