Posted on 03/19/2017 8:28:57 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
“[GOP Chairman Kevin] Brady explained they believe foreign countries will adjust their currencies to account for the new U.S. [retail sales tax] policy, with [retail] prices remaining stagnant.” (my brackets).
yeah right, that leftist idea is going to work sooooo well for the American working man and consumer. so we’re supposedly now encouraging foreign gov’ts to play games with their currencies based on taxing our people more.
so they’re going to voluntarily deflate their own currencies? man, these gopes and leftists work so damn hard coming up with these wicked schemes to fool and fleece us American working people (and foreign working people too). and in the name of conservatism? and President Trump is supposedly non-committal to this? may God please help us. looks like i’ll have to add this issue to my WH correspondence as well as ryancare.
please, just tariff the dumping, cheap labor exploiting, tax cheating, money manipulating, foreign exporters in American dollars, period. no more taxes on the American people. please Mr. President don’t fall for this.
Ryan craves to have his masterpieces affirmed. And the Democrats are well aware of this vulnerability.
Consultants work for anyone who hires them, where is there news here?
The border adjustment tax is pretty much exactly what you are describing, so why oppose it?
The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
So Auerbach is in the clear, constitutionally, with the border adjustment tax, which is simply a form of import duty.
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There is no fixing obamacare or its clones. Complete repeal with NO replacement is what is called for followed by repeal or phaseout of all other federal connection to medicine and insurance is what would improve American Medicine. It would increase access to the maximum extent possible where people make decisions for themselves and would be progressively cheaper as the market does what the market does. Medical insurance would become actually insurance as it would no longer be needed to pay for normal needs but would be low cost with a high deductible(which would be less than the deductibles for so much of the current “regular” insurance) and reserved for major events. What we have now is NOT insurance. It is a prepaid medical plan that must also support hordes of supernumerary agents and bureaucrats and deadbeats.
From Beserkley? Nice.
The government should not be providing for “living wages” for anyone but government employees and those should number perhaps 20% of current staffing, a lot less than that if all the Unconstitutional and unnecessary Agencies and Departments were eliminated. The first four are the only ones that make sense.
The VAT is insidious because the ultimate payer of the VAT does not know how much he actually pays and it is too easy to jigger and raise. Stick with the taxes we have. I wish Trump could see the value in going to a low rate flat tax, my estimate is 9% of earned personal income with no exemptions, deductions, credits or any other modifications. It might have to be put on business, too because very few conservatives, even, understand just who it is that pays the business tax or that on net, it actually adds nothing to the revenue bottom line.
He isn't much of an economist, is he, if he doesn't realize that NO taxes are ever paid by corporations, and ALL taxes are paid by workers.
Perhaps the problem is that he (and other "economists" like him) believes that corporations have some separate revenue stream that comes from a source other than customers?
Nothing like Ryan going to a Berkley communist to redistribute my health and speech to others so they can vote against my interests and tell me how I should live “collectively” to put me in a good mood regarding my right of free speech vs theirs to riot.
Thanks for that compilation.
yep
; At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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1. Eliminate ALL corporate tax.
1a. Eliminate ALL depletion allowances and depreciation allowances.
2. Eliminate ALL current IRS regulations.
3. Set the individual tax rate at 10% regardless of income.
3a. Perquisites at taxed at 10% of cost.
3b. Withhold at the rate of 11%, to get a refund you have to file taxes, but there is no legal imperative to file.
4. Tax ALL money coming into the country at 0% (yes, ZERO%).
5. Tax ALL money leaving the country at 10%.
Power to tax is the power to destroy.
What could possibly be more harmful than penalizing everyone whose efforts add even the slightest value?
Oh...Fred Thompson...I miss him
Fred Thompson was a good guy... but my post was Tommy Lee Jones.
:)
Ha...I always mix them up!
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