Any tax proposal which uses the word "fair" is dishonest on the face of it. I would have been willing to consider it if it had been called the Less Evil Tax. Since it doesn't reduce taxes, it is not worth supporting.
For life and liberty, David Macko ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas L. Knapp To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Libertarian] Another interesting LP candidate Quoth Boyd W. Smith: ----- The fair tax one is really good as an interim measure prior to eliminating all taxation. ----- The "Fair" Taxers propose a revenue-neutral tax, which means that it doesn't cut taxes. Furthermore, the "Fair" Taxers propose that every American receive a check from the government every month as a "rebate." I'm not sure how putting every man, woman and child in America on welfare as a part of the tax code is supposed to be an "interim measure" toward eliminating that tax code. Once those checks start coming, every American who thinks he is getting over somehow -- which will be most of them -- will howl like a stuck pig versus any proposal that might STOP the checks from coming. One talking point is "eliminating the IRS," but that won't happen. There will still need to be a compliance enforcement function, and there will be an army of bureaucrats to cut the welfare checks. It may be dispersed among other branches of government, but that will just make it HARDER to eliminate rather than actually eliminating it. The "Fair" Tax is even worse than the existing system in just about every way imaginable. Tom Knapp [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
