Entroper on 14 January 2008
| Eomund said: Entroper it sounds good to have a gradual transition, but if you think about it this is not a good idea. If we have at any time a federal tax on both income and consumption, the politicians will not give either of them up and the tax burden will increase to the point of economic collapse of America. The only way we can switch to the FairTax is cold turkey. Anything else is far too dangerous. I do not trust our politicians to make the right decision if both an income tax and the FairTax are working at the same time. That is too big a risk to take and if we don't go cold turkey we cannot take the risk of adding a consumption tax. |
They would never be able to do what you're talking about. If the overall tax burden continued to increase, the next wave of elections would have everyone running on a platform of getting rid of the unfair taxes.
