Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > Based on what? Pulling numbers from your ass? Is x4 documented anywhere at > all? >
Yes, completely out of my arse. But it's a small arse guess. If you pressed me for accuracy, depending on what kind of loss tolerance we agreed to, I'd say more like 10x. Dude. Just on incentives alone we'd have a better luck playing pick-up sticks with our butt cheeks than getting this anywhere near law. There's hardly any congresspeople that would seriously touch this (you always get a few kooks). Anyway, like I said, I'm all for it since I'd do awesome assuming it didn't totally feck up the economy ... which it would. BTW, here's my original answer to your question: Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: >> What would happen to the IRS? Quadruple in size? > > Please show your math. > Just a swag considering all of the agents necessary to police all 4 borders and every point of entry for tax-free goods: International DHL, FedEx, UPS, etc would all have to be inspected in detail ... Airports, seaports, ports of entry would all have to beef up to inspect baggage coming into the country ... You'd have to whole layers of police to seaports for ships and containers that could be bypassing normal retail channels, destined for the black market ... Like I said, MN has many (hundreds?) of lakes that straddle the border with Canada and tax evasion is rampant: boats, beer, cars, industrial equipment, and that's just the stuff I know about and I hardly know anything about it. So in a Fair Tax world Minnesota would probably be a booming economy! Hmmmm ... maybe it's not so bad after all . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:339776 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
