--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bob_brigante wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > *********** > > > > At least this candidate seems calm in the face of all the > > fearmongering -- in fact, Mike Gravel has clearly made the best > > campaign ad so far: > > > > http://www.slatev.com/ > Gravel was on with Thom Hartmann this morning on Air America. He > pretty much considers himself a maverick. They did argue over Gravel's > tax plan which is sales tax based. Hartmann rarely has any candidates > or politicians on other than his regular Fridays with Bernie Sanders. > That's because they have to appear with no rules and a lot of the > politicians even liberal ones will have a list of things he can't talk > about. Apparently Gravel had no such list. >
******** Most politicians who advocate a switch to a national sales tax (which would have to be 20 or 25 percent to make up for lost income tax revenue) advocate it only as a way to reduce the tax "burden" on the wealthy, but Gravel advocates funding Social Security and Medicare out of sales tax revenue, which would be much fairer to low income people who are now paying ~7.5% of their income in SS and Medicare taxes no matter how much they make: http://pages.citebite.com/j1d9s2p4q2nqe
