FairTax Blogburst: A Really Voluntary Tax Structure
Here’s this week’s FairTax blogburst.
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There are many reasons to support the FairTax. I managed to do a little research, and found some rather unique points of view that I had not previously considered, and was reminded of some previously-covered ideas that are still worth mentioning.
- For the most part, the FairTax is voluntary. If you want to pay the tax, purchase a new house, car, motor home, etc. If you want to avoid the tax, purchase a used house, car, motor home, etc. The tax only applies to new items.
- No one will ever need to take out a loan to pay taxes, interest, or penalties again, as can all too often happen under our current system.
- Drug dealers and other criminals, as well as anyone else currently paid “under the table”, will pay taxes if they purchase new items. Ever seen a drug dealer driving a used car? Ever seen a pimp shopping at Goodwill? I didn’t think so.
- Lower income families working multiple jobs get a fantastic incentive to work now, knowing that zero Federal taxes will be withheld from their paychecks. Most of the money from the second job can be applied to whatever previously unaffordable luxury they wish — perhaps including, for the first time, a home of their own?
- With the abolition of the death tax, homes, farms, and land which might previously have had to be sold to satisfy the government’s unquenchable thirst for money can now be retained and kept in the family. In cases where the property has been in the family for multiple generations, can you imagine the gratitude of the family?
- Friends and family can now actually help each other out with tax-free assistance, since the gift tax will be abolished.
- Businesses can actually lower their cost of doing business since they won’t be paying the current 7.65% matching FICA tax for each employee.
- It’s even a good deal for the environment — think of all the paper we’ll save by not having to file taxes!
But even with all this, we must remember that the FairTax initiative is a grassroots effort. If your Senator or Representative does not support the FairTax, find out why. Then let them know that you do support it. Make phone calls, write letters. Let your friends and family know the details of the FairTax, and why you believe it is such a good deal for Americans. Only through the diligent and concerned efforts of ordinary citizens will these bills ever make it through to the floors of the House and Senate.
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TD
Um, I hate to be critical, but you are missing a bunch of problems with a consumption tax. First what will be excluded, second who will manage the rebates they are talking about? But yet again the poor get a rebate, so it is not flat nor fair.
The only way to go is a flat income tax. A one time tax on your income and then THAT IS IT. Charging people when they spend their money will be patently lopsided towards penalizing the working class who spend 100% of their income, and benefit those who invest. No this is not good at all, and severely ill-conceived.
Comment by The Uncooperative Blogger | June 15, 2006
I think those problems are not unresolvable, just that they haven’t been fully developed. Does it really matter who manages the rebates to define whether or not such a system would work? Sure, they are important questions to answer, but those don’t stop it from being “fair”.
You can make an argument against the rebate, however in our current system with the rich being able to organize their finances to pay less in taxes than I do is hardly fair.
Though, to be honest, a flat income tax wouldn’t break my heart either.
Comment by jcb | June 16, 2006
FairTax Blogburst
There are many reasons to support the FairTax. I managed to do a little research, and found some rather unique points of view that I had not previously considered, and was reminded of some previously-covered ideas that are still worth mentioning.
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