Thus said "Jonathan Ellis" on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:28:52 PDT: > I counted half a dozen straw men skimming just the first half.
Such as? This may not be the best argument against FairTax, but the author clearly is against income tax altogether, especially that which is withheld automatically because it hides the fact that the government is actually taxing you. But you probably didn't bother reading his first article (too radical possibly) referenced at the beginning, the last paragraph of which states: ``There is, therefore, nothing short of dramatically rolling back income tax rates (good) or eliminating the income tax altogether (better) that will even begin to tame the federal leviathan.'' > I quit somewhere around his hysterical raving about baby sitters > becoming tax collectors. What's so hysterical about that? If the government found out that you were making money as a baby sitter, do you think it would just turn away and not make your customers pay tax on it? Or would there be some professions that are exempt from requiring their patrons to pay taxes? Today I went to a chocolate store and asked how much a particular confection was. They said it was $2, which just happened to be the exact amount of FRN that I have in my wallet. I asked them if that was pre-tax and they affirmed that it was so, to which I asked, can you just sell me the confection without the tax? They didn't answer and smirked at me. I walked out. They lost my sale. Is this good for business? I guess it was good for me because I didn't really need the extra calories... So maybe the ``War on Obesity'' is actually working and my taxes that they took for this cause are doing good.. > I'm not saying that fairtax is perfect, but quit swallowing whole > everything you read on mises.org. Swallowing whole? Would you rather I wrote about it at length instead of referring to someone else's work that does the job properly for the most part? Maybe my ``code reuse'' training doesn't apply to other fields... Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 5:53pm up 91 days, 2:31, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
