| Eomund said: When the Leader of the Dems of the House doesn't stop a obvious insult to Turkey, and by that nearly, if not entirely, starting conflict where there should not have been she is either a hollow-eyed empty headed liberal, or she is acting against the US. Which is it? When the media gives a daily body count of US Soldiers, but mentions nothing of the number of enemy terrorists those brave men and women have put down like the rabid dogs they are, what is that? It is a one-sided view of things. They do not like to report good news unless it is hitting them in the face so hard, that they would lose all credibility if they did not report it. |
You're obviously pretty riled up about this, so I'm just going to let it go. Try to chill out in the future, and maybe you can have a rational discussion about it.
I'm actually in favor of the FairTax. A system that taxes what you buy instead of what you make is fundamentally more "fair" and has lots of other side benefits. I see we've broken out the graphs -- but you have to realize that these analyses are done under the assumption of "all else being equal." That is, assuming spending habits will be the same, investing habits will be the same, etc. Also, I don't see any discussion of tax breaks or incentives with that graph, which greatly reduce the tax burden for the wealthy under the current system, so I don't know if those were taken into account in the analysis.
At any rate, I do see problems with the FairTax. In most states, sales taxes are set up so that the most basic consumer goods like food are taxed at a lower rate than everything else, and I would rather see that than a "prebate" system. IMO prebates sound too much like all the tax breaks and incentives under the current system. One of the ideas of a consumption tax instead of an income tax is to get rid of all that crap and keep it simple. I also agree with factcheck's assertion that the 23% figure is bogus, but that doesn't change the nature of the tax itself, it just means the AFT is being misleading.
