With appreciation to Tom Leser, of FairTax Rosetta Team (Ranked: 39th) - http://www.fairtaxscorecard.com/boincchallenge.phtml - for the following information.
------ The FairTax is now included as part of the Libertarian Reform Caucus's Platform (version 1): http://reformthelp.org/platform/rights/p3.php The FairTax is their Taxation Proposal #5: http://reformthelp.org/platform/reports/pop.php B.) TAXATION Issues: Taxes are too many, too complicated, too burdensome, and too high. The income tax violates the individual's right to privacy and taxes the fruits of labor, creating artificially inflated prices and reducing savings and investment. Principles: The tax code should be simple, clean, efficient and minimal, providing for the basic provision of necessary government services. Tax collection should not involve an invasion of individual privacy. Taxing people and using the money for government funding for special interest groups is theft. Solutions: We support: 1. The phase-out and abolishment of all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes; 2. The repeal of he 16th Amendment; 3. The review of all cases where individuals have been convicted of, or who now stand accused of, tax resistance. 4. Cutting excessive government to reduce the overall tax revenue needed, and offsetting these cuts with lower overall taxes. 5. A fairer, less intrusive replacement to the income tax, such as the FairTax, to offset the income needed to fund necessary government services and provide basic protections. 6. Consumption and pollution taxes which cover the real and social costs of use, so such costs are equitably distributed on the users instead of on all taxpayers later. One example would be a carbon tax. ------ ih For a nice overview of FairTax, view: http://www.investing-news.com/artman/publish/article_1195.shtml Learn more about FairTax: http://fairtax.org Learning and activist resources in LINKS at: http://tinyurl.com/7lssy ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2HUd1C/lOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
