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FROM MY FAVORITE LUDDITE’S COMMENT ABOUT THE FAIR TAX

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119863013677849835.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

COMMENTARY
FairTax Facts
By LEO LINBECK
December 26, 2007; Page A10

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Much has been written lately about the FairTax, the proposal to replace the current federal income tax with a national retail sales tax. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong.

This country needs a spirited and wide-ranging debate about fundamental tax reform. But that debate is not advanced by misimpressions and distortions of the FairTax.

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Let’s take on a few points.

>What emerged from this research is that a national retail sales tax
> is a preferred method of taxation
> among most Americans surveyed.

Sorry, but no one asked me! This ASSUMES that there is a moral basis for FORCING people to pay a “tax”. It’s theft. Pure and simple.

>Another is that the tax would have significant benefits for the nation’s economy.

It’s just a different way of robbing people.

>Why? Because it eliminates income taxes and payroll taxes (for Social Security and Medicare)

Does it “eliminate” them?

Assume for a minute that we overlook the moral argument about theft!

Unless the repeal of the Sixteenth precedes the implantation of the “Fair Tax”, you can rest assured that we will have every manner of taxation available.

>the FairTax would eliminate the distorting effect that
>income and payroll taxes have on the economy.

It would create it’s own set of unintended consequences.

For example, I have already been “taxed” and “inflated” on my “savings and investments”. Now, I get taxed again when I spend this money. What happens when I die? I get taxed again. :-)

>Research on the price of consumer goods reveals that up to 20% of all
>prices today represent hidden income
>taxes and payroll taxes. Once these taxes are repealed and replaced
> with the FairTax, it is likely that market
>pressure would force retail prices to fall.

All this does is rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

>Eliminating embedded taxes will also do something else —
> it will remove significant price disadvantages

In your dreams.

>Another benefit of the FairTax is that, unlike other sales taxes, it would not hit the poorest Americans the
>hardest. The FairTax proposal calls for sending every American a “prebate” check to offset the cost of the

So like Social Security, we will now put EVERY American on the dole.

>The FairTax rate is 23% on retail sales when calculated “inclusively,” as are income tax rates.

The tax is buried in the price of the goods being sold. Let’s at least have the stones to have it printed on the grocery receipt.

>It will, in a fairer, more transparent and less-expensive way, raise the same amount of money the federal >government now collects through the income and payroll taxes.

But, the biggest tax is inflation and it doesn’t do anything about that.

>Significantly, the FairTax eliminates all loopholes, gimmicks, exemptions and deductions from the federal tax

Yeah, right, how long will that last?

>Politically, the FairTax will only become law once enough citizens demand that it be enacted

Since when does it matter what the citizens demand. The gang in Washington is in power, regardless of which of the duopoly is the titular head, based on the voting minority. It’s a waste of time to “demand” anything.

>It is debatable whether a modern, citizen-led tax revolution is possible.

Carla Howell is leading a Income tax repeal referendum in Taxzachussetts.

>But the growing popularity (even among presidential candidates) of the FairTax suggests that

They see that they can keep the scam going and get more people to buy into the delusion that it does anything at all to CUT SPENDING!

>another Boston Tea Party may be at hand.

One can only hope.

The American Experiment ended with the War of Northern Aggression in the 1860’s. That started as a tax fight. And, the USA has been in a downward spiral ever since. Like plane heading to the ground nose first, it may well be too late to pull out. (I hope not.)

The problem I have with the whole Fair Tax movement is that it distracts us from the real problems:

0. Honest money (i.e., the banking cartel’s “federal reserve” is inflating us into poverty);

1. The dole (The non-productive people are voting themselves benefits paid for by the productive people!);

2. The gooferment public education system is brainwashing all the future voters into the gooferments paradigms (when the nazis and the communists did it we were horrified; when our own gooferment does it, that’s fine.)

3. The gooferment is imprisoning us (i.e., the “war” on drugs – poverty – smoking) and killing those who resist (Ruby Ridge – Waco);

4. We can’t afford to be the “world’s policeman” (i.e.,Repatriate the troops home);

5. We can’t afford ANY and ALL gooferments with their unintended consequences.

It’ll be the biggest crash in the history of mankind.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/12/the_big_dig_is_done.html

December 26, 2007
“The Big Dig” is Done
Rick Moran

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Officially launched in 1987 with an estimated budget of $2.8 billion, the project’s costs ballooned over the years, reaching a depressing $14.6 billion by the time it was complete. Wikpedia details some of the problems over the years with the project:

The Big Dig has been the most expensive highway project in the U.S.[6] Although the project was estimated at $2.8 billion in 1985 (in 1982 dollars), over $14.6 billion had been spent in federal and state tax dollars as of 2006.[7] The project has incurred criminal arrests[8][9], escalating costs, death, leaks, and charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials. The Massachusetts Attorney General is demanding contractors refund taxpayers $108 million for “shoddy work.” [10]

Just last year, a motorist died when some concrete panels collapsed. Inspections revealed substandard construction – a charge that plagued the project almost from the beginning.

The federal contribution to the project? $8.55 billion. Your tax dollars at work.

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What can one say?

No surprise. No one — politician or bureaucrat — gets any adverse impact. No one pays for it but the taxpayer.

Poor stupid taxpayer!

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http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/12/end_the_irs_get_the_fairtax_an.php

End the IRS: Get the FairTax and Get Your Whole Paycheck
December 24, 2007 | By Jack Yoest

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Mike Huckabee, “is the change agent the nation most needs.” From The Dallas Morning News endorsement from delegate rich Texas.

FairTax An example of this change Huckabee advocates is ending, eliminating, closing down a government agency: the Internal Revenue Service. The beloved IRS.

Kyle Hamilton is blogging on the FairTax on mymanmitt, founded by my good friend Justin Hart. They are skeptical of real tax change. Our competitors supporting Romney do not believe that real change is possible, or maybe not necessary.

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Sorry, but you’ve been duped. The Fair Tax ain’t fair. In a short comment it’s not possible to go into all the rationale for this statement, but lets just hit two points.

(1) Unless the Sixteenth Amendment is repealed prior to the implementation of the Fair Tax [and not the wimpy Congress passed law that promises to repeal it], you can be assured that we will have both the National Sales Tax / Fair Tax AND the income tax. We’ve been fooled many times — income tax only for the rich, social security will never taxable, IRAs never had RMDs at first, and many other “camels” that have stuck their nose in — why would you trust the politicians now?

(2) Taxation in any form is THEFT. By what moral authority does the majority impose this “theft”? If a tax isn’t truly voluntary, then it is coerced. This is supposed to be the “land of the free”. What a joke!

No, sorry, we are on the “road to serfdom”. The sheep are being enslaved by degrees. Our revolutionary “fore fathers” would be ashamed at what we have let happen to the American Experiment.

Sorry, but only Ron Paul is pointing the way out of this mess. You can nuke the IRS by cutting spending back to Clinton era numbers.

Without a fundamental revolution, the Fair Tax does NOTHING for the largest tax we pay — the Inflation Tax.

The Fair Tax is at best a flawed distraction — lipstick on one ugly pig — to take our eye off the ball.

Sorry, but I respectfully disagree.

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Ahh, the Socialists are in full bloom. Trying to steal Ron Paul’s thunder — end the IRS — while maintaining the status quo.

The empty suits of both parties are just that “empty suits” who want to keep the current system going along.

If you don’t solve the problem of “honest money”, nothing else matters. If you don’t solve the problem of “Congressional spending”, nothing else matters. If you don’t solve the problem of “unfunded entitlements”, nothing else matters.

If Ron Paul doesn’t get the nod, then we are in the run away elevator to the bottom. Right next to the Roman Empire. And, all the broken dreams of freedom.

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Small Government News*
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

“The Massachusetts State Teachers Union Has Launched a Boiler Room,
Telemarketing Operation to Disqualify Our Ballot Initiative to END the
Income Tax In Massachusetts”

Publisher: Carla Howell
Editor: Michael Cloud

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You haven’t seen anything yet! You don’t think that all those that suck off the public teat are going to just give up and get a “real job”? Politicians, bureaucrats, and their “sicko-pants” have too much “invested” in the current system.

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From:
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:11 AM
To: John Reinke
Subject: For Consideration

John, a thought regarding our discussion about the U.S. involvement overseas:

“ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF
EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING.”
– EDMUND BURKE

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I guess Burke was advocating “making men good” (i.e., behave as we think they should) by killing and occupying them. Killing and maiming will make sure they get the point. Installing our puppets like <pick you favorite tyrant> and, when he get too big for his britches by alluding to pricing oil in other than dollars, over turn him.

Our interventionist policies are what get us into trouble. We allow our gooferment to stick our collective hands in the car door. When it gets slammed on — by others or sometimes by our own gooferment people or their operatives, we are fooled when they “ride into rescue” us. And, as always, the cure is worse than the disease.

Finally, I would assert that Swiss have the porcupine model down pat. The Canadians usually are smart enough to stay out of other people’s business as well. Trading with people, talking to people, free travel between countries these are not “isolationist”. We voted in the Kerry / Bush election for a “smaller gooferment” and a “humble foreign policy” with “no nation building” — i remember hearing those things. MYOB, free trade, free travel, ending the dole, bringing the troops home, sound money, getting the gooferment out of education. These are NOT “doing nothing”.

I’d sum up the argument by quoting Madeline Albright about sanctions killing children.

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Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price–we think the price is worth it.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084
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Unless they were your children, then you might hold a grudge.

Republican Presidents have a history before Bush of cleaning up messes. I hope Ron Paul gets a chance to before it’s too late. Frankly, electing one of the other stuffed suits virtually guarantees the End of the American Experiment. And, maybe it’s even too big for him to clean up.

“Dona Nobis Pacem”

:-(
fjohn

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EMAIL TO MY FAVORITE SOCIALIST ABOUT TEA PARTY!

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I’m doing it for the children!

Do you want them to grow up “socialists”? Or, as the Dead Old White Guys intended strong, free, and brave?

We are spending them into oblivion.

Think after the fall of the various empires throughout history. Pax Americana is ending. Ugly, hard, and in an ocean of debt!

When your sitting your rocking chair (I sure hope you can afford one.) I want you to be able to tell all the grandkids about this loon of a uncle who saved them from poverty by a few hundred dollars to the Great President Ron Paul, who made America a great nation again.

The alternative is Zimbabwe like inflation, internal strife like the Tutsi (we’re all members of some minority or another), or an oppressive regime like Cuba or North Korea. Like turning a great ocean liner, it takes that steering rudder which turns the main rudder causing the whole ship to turn.

This is truly a watershed election.

You’ve got a choice in this election. It’s stark — one Texas obgyn who painted as a loon or any one of 19 stuffed shirts all saying basically the same thing “socialism”. My crystal ball is cloudy. But, I know, from the history of the Plymouth colony — Russia — North Korea — Cuba, that socialism doesn’t work and it eventually devolves into gooferment killing citizens. It even happens here.

Gooferment impoverishes the people when it debases the currency. And, no amount of lipstick on this pig is going to make it look any better.

Adjusting my tin foil hat, checking the beans ‘n’ beer supply, and cleaning my “urban yutes discouragement devices”,
fjohn

p.s., Imagine how short the Nazi genocide would have been if every minority family had a gun? I can hear the conversation now “No, Herr Himler, I think it’s your turn to go first!”. :-)

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The Second Amendment ensure that you have all the others!

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http://tinyurl.com/2mtk5v

Pettitte Admits Using HGH During 2002
Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:17 PM EST

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NEW YORK — Andy Pettitte used human growth hormone to recover from an elbow injury in 2002, the New York Yankees pitcher admitted two days after he was cited in the Mitchell Report.

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Who cares what other people put in their body? Only the “drug police”, who think that they can somehow stop it. Didn’t work in Prohibition; won’t work now.

You’ve got millionaires playing for billionaires and I’m supposed to care about it in some way? Like any “sports team” creates a granfalloon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon that I am supposed to align with. It’s entertainment. And, when they cease to be entertaining, we’ll find something else. They are men playing a game. Not “superstars”. Unless they use their status for something “good”, we don’t know them.

That’s why imho the whole story has been greeted with a giant yawn. We the people have more important things to do. Like making a living. Like getting through the daily grind. Like being authentic. There’s no “drug” that helps with that.

Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn!

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/14526

Boston Tea Party Speech 12/16/07
Posted December 17th, 2007 by Jane Aitken

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Jim Forsythe PhD, Aerospace Engineer and former tanker pilot who flew missions to Bosnia and Kosovo gave this speech at the Boston Tea Party celebration for Ron Paul at Faneuil Hall, Boston today. Long live the “Second American Revolution” of 2008.

Enjoy!

– Jane

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I especially like the lines:

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For a strong defense, what we need is to protect our borders, not attempt to remake borders overseas. We need to pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy, with free trade and travel to engender the good will of the world. And when we are attacked we need to go after those that have attacked us, and only those that attacked us. What we need, is Ron Paul. In his ten terms he has consistently fought to protect our borders. He has consistently advocated a non-interventionist foreign policy and free trade. And he advocated directly targeting the terrorists, by voting to pursue them in Afghanistan. He also sponsored a bill to target the terrorist directly through constitutional means, but was ignored.

It has become abundantly clear to me that the revolution sparked by the Boston Tea Party was gradually abandoned over the last two centuries. Our non-interventionist foreign policy was abandoned by Wilson, who said we should “make the world safe for democracy,” leading to WW1. But the withering torch of freedom has once again been re-ignited. The revolution began at Lexington and Concord 10 miles west of this cradle of liberty. And the beginning of the second American Revolution will also take place in Concord. But it will be Concord, New Hampshire, headquarters of the New Hampshire Ron Paul for President Campaign.

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Note: I’d quibble about the “Second” American Revolution. I’d count the War of Northern Aggression as second. Ron Paul might be the “third”?

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8THD8A80&show_article=1

Huckabee Pushes National Sales Tax in NH
Dec 14 02:03 PM US/Eastern
By LIBBY QUAID
Associated Press Writer

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BOSCAWEN, N.H. (AP) – Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said eliminating federal income taxes in favor of a national sales tax would help save Social Security—an odd pitch in a state where residents pay no state income or sales taxes.

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What do your expect from a “socialist”?

Aside from the fact that a “national sales tax” will just gives us BOTH an income tax and a sales tax, (I will trust me — the income tax was passed as a tax on rich people — the gang in gooferment have a vampire’s lust for money instead of blood) it’s theft.

Just continue to ask, “by what authority do you force people to pay?”

They have the guns and the willingness to use them.

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Sure, I can’t be in Vegas and go 14-0 on a teaser card. Wish it was skill! I think the pay tables only go to 14. http://www.sportsbook.com/info/comparative-odds.php#teaser I’d be getting 150-1. So my 10$ bet would be 1500. And, all my lesser ones would have won as well. I usually played 100$ with 4,6,8,10,12! More on the lower ones and less on the higher. Argh! And, I’m still behind Frenchy.

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I usually bet 50 on four, 40 on six, 30 on eight, 20 on ten, and 10 on twelve!

That would have returned 150+240+450+1000+500=2340

Argh!

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