http://www.jpfo.org/fairtax.htm
The FAIRTAX: A TROJAN HORSE FOR AMERICA?
By Claire Wolfe & Aaron Zelman
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We’re likely to end up with both a national sales tax and an income tax. Even if legislation required abolition of the income tax (as HR 25 does), a “national crisis” would soon cause the income tax to be “temporarily re-instated” and the Internal Revenue Service would remain in our lives on an “emergency basis” that never ended.
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Sorry, but, I don’t trust the gooferment. Taxes, income – estate -sales, are nothing more than theft by an armed gang. And, while now, I don’t have the power to resist, I don’t agree with “putting lipstick” on this particular pig! The JPFO article makes many good points, not the least of which is that it conditions the sheep people to accept taxation by the government gang as legitimate. And, stealing from someone is never moral. If I did it, I go to jail. If you did it, you’d go to jail. But the government does it, that’s ok?
Nope, no fair tax for me. I’m not going to agree to being robbed. I might get robbed, but I’m not going to say “it’s ok”.
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I’m sorry you feel that way.
Having a national sales tax and income tax together at once has been discussed in Congress, and could happen anytime, but having the FairTax together with an income tax is very unlikely, since HR 25 immediately shuts down the sections of the tax code that define our hodge-podge of taxes, then prohibits the funding of the Internal Revenue Service after FY 2011. Next, efforts to repeal the 16th amendment are already underway, in the form of House Joint Resolution 16. This companion legislation starts the process to ratify the 28th amendment, which will repeal the 16th. Once that happens, Article 1, section 9, clause 4 once again takes precedence; no capitation or direct taxes, i.e, no more income taxes.
In addition, the FairTax is revenue-neutral, generating the same revenue as the system today. Congress won’t have less to spend, and no “national emergency” is likely.
I am aware of the “taxation is theft” viewpoint of Murray Rothbard, Laurence Vance and some Libertarians.
No taxes at all? That’s unrealistic and unworkable.
How would this idea come to fruition? How do we fund government so it can serve the people? How can we return to an economy as it was before WWI and the (unfortunate) enactment of the 16th amendment, where government was funded by the policies of the time?
Nobody likes taxes. The way we raise them now is robbery, due to our tax code and enforcement. It’s Marxist and Communist. But paying taxes at your discretion via consumption is far less intrusive and objectionable.
The FairTax is the proposal most in line with the Founders’ vision of indirect taxes. It is a step back toward their vision; the largest transfer of power from government to the people since the Revolutionary War.
The FairTax goes further by being non-regressive (the poor pay no taxes) and progressive (the more you spend, the more tax you pay.) The wealthy spend more because they have more, which provides the source of the prebate that makes the FairTax not regressive.
Our tax system is a hopeless, unredeemable mess. Replacing it with a system that uses a completely different base is the only way out of the mess. The FairTax is the only tax replacement proposal that offers that choice.
Mr. Vance, Mr. Rothbard and others are certainly entitled to their opinions, but I don’t see that they propose anything better. If we must have taxes, I vote for a system that the people control, with far less chance of congressional manipulation.
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