Fair Tax: Starve the Federal Government
Red Planet Cartoons commemorated the annual feeding of the federal Leviathan: April 15th, Tax Day. The above cartoon kicks off an informative post about The Fair Tax.
“[P]assing the FairTax would constitute the biggest transfer of power from government to the people in the history of this republic.â€
-–from the book FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics by congressman John Linder and Neal Boortz, p.60.
For those who need information on the Fair Tax idea, RPC presents the following, easy-to-digest table.
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The FairTax Act (HR 25, S 1025) is nonpartisan legislation. It abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes and replaces them with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax administered primarily by existing state sales tax authorities…
The FairTax: * Enables workers to keep their entire paychecks * Enables retirees to keep their entire pensions * Refunds in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities * Allows American products to compete fairly * Brings transparency and accountability to tax policy * Ensures Social Security and Medicare funding * Closes all loopholes and brings fairness to taxation * Abolishes the IRS For more: About the Fair Tax |
Red Planet has also lined up an impressive list of individuals endorsing the Fair Tax, from Congressmen to Herman Cain (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City).
April 15 has come and gone.
But the results of April 15 are everywhere around us–and they don’t present a pretty picture.
Every time the Post Office loses one of your letters.
Every time a new government regulation is passed by unelected federal officials.
Every time an elected representative is caught doling out special favors (that is, tax dollars) to his chosen few.
Check out the Fair Tax. Check out Red Planet Cartoons “Tax Day”.
The only way the federal government will shrink in power and control is by starving it of tax dollars.
[If you want to know what you can do to help move along the Fair Tax, check out fairtax.org.]
by Mondoreb
image: Red Planet Cartoons
Source: Tax Day
The Fair Tax will undoubtedly gain a great deal of support from both sides of the aisle fairly soon. It is a sales tax.
As the nation enters a depression (recession), the vast majority of you will lose your income. No income, no tax being collected. But you will still be buying things. A lot less things, but you will still make purchases.
Since government has no intension of cutting spending, taxing sales is the obvious means of bleeding you further. Yup, they are more than happy to temporarily abandon income tax to get your earnings through a sales tax.
Not only does it get you to participate in affirming their “just” power to steal your productivity, it gets them the power to inspect businesses — all businesses — like never before.
SUCKERS!!!!
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WOW, what a statement. The Facist Nation comment above points out the fact that Facist Nation hasn’t read the FairTax bill (H.R. 25) and really doesn’t understand the bill..
Negativity is not the American Way. Educating one’s self before arbitrairily making not so smart statements is probably a good idea.
I don’t remember exactly who made the following quote but it has a lot of merit: “Those who say it is impossible are always getting in the way of those getting the job done”!
Our present tax system (7 million word mess) is not only abusive, punative and counterproductive, penalizes America totally.
Facist Nation may not like the FairTax however I haven’t heard what your plan is to correct the tax system, unless you really are a Facist and want America to be brought to it’s knees.
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What Fascist Nation does not know or understand or “get” is that the FairTax was created by all of us — American citizens — in response to the question “What is the fairest, best way to pay taxes?” Truly, if we have to be taxed at all, the FairTax is the best plan I’ve ever seen. The other problem — How Much to Pay — is left up to us as an on-going battle with Congress to control unrestrained spending, but the FairTax goes a long way toward helping to fix that, too. Just read the bill. As for me, it’s “Onward and Upward — FairTax forever.
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It constantly amazes me how a few people will cling to government oppression in the face of change! Unless, of course, those people have something to lose by changing. In this case it would be cheaters who don’t pay taxes now, beaurocrats who maintain a power base by using our tax dollars illegitimately or professional tax people (accountants, IRS agents, lawyers, etc.) who don’t want to change in their profession. When it comes to the FairTax, I suspect it is people in these categories that pose as fools in order to oppose what has become our nations own tyranny.
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I find it rediculous that our tax system is so complicated that it is worth a company’s time and money to advertise nationally on TV for clients to help out of their tax problems. By eliminating the current tax system and effecting change, we have a chance to do it right and fair.
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Dear Fascist Nation,
Any tax proposal that gets the government out of my private business is a good thing. If you think the FairTax would be a tool to regulate businesses, what do you think the income tax is used for for people? The federal government knows every dollar that I have ever made in my entire life. That’s way too much power. Don’t believe for a minute that that information is secret.
The current tax code requires me to testify against myself and considers me guilty until I prove my innocence.
I am all in favor of a proposal to extinguish the IRS, eliminate the current tax code, and do away with April 15th.
I would think you would be, too.
Casey Elliott
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I don’t understand why people look at the FairTax with the attitude of it doesn’t benefit me. Why should I support this?
The reason is that everyone will pay their fair share no matter what income level you fall under.
Whether you have six children or one you still pay your share. If you live in a $300,000.00 home or a $50,000.00 one you pay your share.
The FairTax wasn’t researched and supported by top economists in this great nation of ours to benefit any one person but for everyone.
I support the FairTax not because of any political reason. I do it because I’m a Father, Grandfather and a tax paying citizen who is tired of being promised tax deductions that I might be able to use are not applicable to me. Thus resulting in my paying higher taxes. This deception is buried in the 68,000 plus pages of the IRS’s tax codes. Why do we need this engorged tax book to pay taxes?
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