Well I could be wrong but I very much doubt it. When people hear 23%
sales tax, most of them add the state and local sales tax they are
paying now and call you plum crazy. If it gets close to passing
Congress man phones will be ringing off the hook with people asking
them if they like their job and do they want to keep it, tens of
thousands of people if not millions. Now a flat income tax with a
high personal, dependent deduction, and mortaguge deduction would be
far more supported by the public even more with a charity dedcution
and a Universal charity tax credit which could be used to support
private schools, though I would not support it either. A consumption
tax like the income tax but you could deduct all of your savings and
investment income would come far closer to passing if it included a
high personal and dependent deduction, with the mortgauge deduction
and a charity deduction would be supported even more, but I would not
suuport it
either.
The time it takes to educate people on the benifits of the Fair
tax Plan would be better served educating them ( since you have to
educate them anyway) on why the federal income tax does not need to
be replace with anything, just do away with the federal personal
income tax and replace it with nothing.--- In
[email protected], "investorshelper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Hey Terry,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Your assertion that FairTax has no chance of
> passing is a meaningless statement you have no conditional
> statement. At this writing, something like 54 federal legislators
> have already co-sponsored the FairTax bill HR 25 / S 25 (check
> http://tinyurl.com/7lssy ). This is no small feat, when you
consider
> that Forbes's "Flat Tax" didn't even get 10% that many. If people
> become educated about the FairTax, its features and benefits (see
> below), and agree that it makes sense, grassroots will grow,
activism
> will grow, and change will occur.
>
> Credibility is apparent, because every retail receipt would show
the
> FairTax. That's a BIG part of the plan. So, taxpayers KNOW what
> their government - and its spending - is costing them. So, every
> Piggly Wiggly supermarket receipt will show that 23% of the bill is
> FairTax. NO attempt to HIDE anything.
>
> Clearly, the 23% is a comparative basis to income tax rate
> quotations. Legitimate residents of the US - entitled to receive
the
> monthly family allowance advance tax reimbursement check will NEVER
> pay the full 23% consumption rate (or 29.9%, if you show it as a
true
> sales tax, same difference).
>
> FairTax rates for those making (per this video
> http://snipurl.com/ImagineFTVideo ) in 2004 dollars:
>
> $25,000 = -0-% tax
> $35,000 = 7.9% tax
> $50,000 = 13.0% tax
> $100,000 = 18.3% tax
> $500,000 = 22.1% tax
>
> FairTax is the only tax reform plan that will effectively UNTAX the
> poor and low-income. (Only visitors and illegals will pay the
entire
> 23% portion of prices. FairTax also ensures that drug dealers, and
> others who procure illicit income, will become tax payers).
>
> Let's take a look at how much the even the low-paid wage-earner is
> paying NOW:
>
> 1st) FICA 7.65% - hits all wages from $0 - $90,000
> (rich avoid this when they receive money in dividends)
>
> 2nd) "Hidden Tax" in higher prices 22%
> (avg among all goods/services) - cost of giving Politicians "straw
> men" to tax, so they can tell constituents, "Oh, we'll tax those
> rich, evil businesses, instead of you." As Alan Greenspan noted
> before a congressional committee (Google it): "it is people, and
> *not* businesses, who pay taxes." (paraphrased)
>
> 3rd) Min. income tax rate 10%
>
> Add them together, and you realize that almost
>
> **** 40% of every dollar ****!
>
> is gobbled up by the IRS.
>
> It costs Americans $250-500 billion every year to comply with the
> current federal income tax code ($350 bil for actual compliance,
and
> $150 for time spent in planning tax avoidance - primarily available
> only to the well-off). This waste in paperwork and tax planning is
> equal to $850-1,700 each year for every man, woman and child in the
> U.S. The FairTax will provide a more stable tax base and raise the
> same amount of revenue. The cost to comply with FairTax?
>
> Only about $12 billion annually.
>
> (That's for the whole system - heck, right now, it costs $10
billion
> just to run the IRS!)
>
> or only $50 for every man, woman and child.
>
> Not only is the current 45,000 page tax code wasteful of our money
> and time, it is too complicated to understand. An average of 22% of
> the cost of every good and service produced in the U.S. is the
hidden
> cost of federal business income and payroll taxes. This hidden tax
> puts Americans at a 22% disadvantage when competing here or abroad
> with foreign produced goods and services. A Harvard study shows,
> after the sales tax replaces the current tax code, prices will
> decline by this ~22% and result in companies and jobs returning to
> the U.S. (read: "tax haven" for biz; off-shore returns home;
foreign
> companies set up shop here; btw this is the only way that prices
will
> fall under FairTax: competition)
>
> You, and Bruce Bartlett, are playing fast and loose with tax
rates.
> A rebuttal to Bartlett should be read here:
> http://snipurl.com/FTBartlettRebut
>
> No one said that FairTax will solve tax evasion, there will simply
be
> less opportunity for tax evasion to occur because fully 90% of
> returns (1040's) will be GONE. Only businesses will file the
> FairTaxes collected and buyer and vendor will have to conspire to
> defraud - less likely with "big box" national retailers.
Enforcement
> will shift to local (states). IRS is gone - with its huge wasteful
> computer systems (search gao.gov for their reports to congress).
>
> As far as the 16th Amendment is concerned, the FairTax bill
> disengages operational authority. Thus rendering it as un-usable.
> The Amendment, itself, will need to be repealed among the states.
>
> The main thing is to communicate the FairTax, and its goals,
> features, benefits, and to get behind the effort. I concur with the
> the following delineation of benefits from the FILES of
> [MIFairTax_Districts] Yahoo group:
>
> By taxing consumption, rather than income:
>
> FOR INDIVIDUALS:
> * No more tax on income - make as much as you wish.
> * You receive your full paycheck - no more deductions.
> * You pay the tax when you buy "at retail" - not "used."
> * No more double taxation (e.g. like on current Capital Gains).
> * Reduction of "pre-FairTaxed" retail prices by 20%-30%.
> * Adding back 29.9% FairTax maintains current price levels.
> * FairTax would constitute 23% portion of new prices.
> * Every household receives a monthly check, or "pre-bate."
> * Pre-bate equals payback for taxes on spending to poverty level.
> * FairTax's pre-bate ensures progressivity, poverty protection.
> * Finally, citizens are knowledgeable of what their tax IS.
> * Elimination of "parasitic" Income Tax industry.
> * NO MORE IRS. NO MORE FILING OF TAX RETURNS by individuals.
> * Those possessing illicit forms of income will ALSO pay the
FairTax.
> * Households have more disposable income to purchase goods.
> * Savings is bolstered with reduction of interest rates.
>
> FOR BUSINESSES:
> * Corporate income and payroll taxes revoked under FairTax.
> * Business compensated for collecting tax at "cash register."
> * No more tax-related lawyers, lobbyists on company payrolls.
> * No more embedded (hidden) income/payroll taxes in prices.
> * Reduced costs. Competition - not tax policy - drives prices.
> * Off-shore "tax haven" headquarters can now return to U.S.
> * No more "favors" from politicians at expense of taxpayers.
> * Resources go to R&D and study of competition - not taxes.
> * Marketplace distortions eliminated for fair competition.
> * US exports increase their share of foreign markets.
>
> FOR THE COUNTRY:
> * 7% - 13% economic growth projected in the first year of the
FairTax.
> * Jobs return to the U.S.
> * Foreign corporations "set up shop" in the U.S.
> * Tax system trends are corrected to "enlarge the pie."
> * Larger economic "pie," means thinner tax rate "slices."
> * Initial 23% portion of price is pressured downward as "pie"
> increases.
> * No more "closed door" tax deals by politicians and business.
> * FairTax sets new global standard. Other countries will follow.
>
> I invite you to join the effort ( http://tinyurl.com/7lssy then
> register at FairTax.org )
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
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