Thread: FairTax and Trade

Originally Posted by Judy

Anyone can get a Tax Identification Number from the IRS. All you do is call up and ask for one.

And that's our government's fault for allowing that!

Originally Posted by Judy

There is no opportunity for a black market between the manufacturer, importer and the retailer. No tax is owed by the manufacturer or distributor or importer or retailer.

That's why it is so ripe for black marketeering. When taxes were raised on cigarettes, truckloads were hijacked. People would buy from the black market because they could get their smokes for less than half the legal costs.

With this tax, manufacturers could certainly increase their profits by selling out the back door. And it would be easy to get away with it because there is no IRS auditing their income and expenses.

Further down the line, any distributor could sell a truckload to a blackmarketeer and make an untracked profit.

And an illegal alien would love to get that discount, as well as many legal citizens and aliens.

So it would create a new crime cartel.

Originally Posted by Judy

Consumers owe the tax and only consumers pay it at the retail final point of sale.

If they purchase from a legitimate retailer. You are either playing ignorant, or you are!

Originally Posted by Judy

All business to business transactions are exempt from the FairTax.

Correct! So they are off the books. No one is watching them if they sell to some illegal syndicate. So easy to get around your sales tax.

Originally Posted by Judy

Only the retailer collects, and forwards their collections to the state if they sign up to collect it with their state sales taxes or in the 5 states who don't now have a sales tax collection organization, then they can contract with a neighboring state to do it for them or the feds will set up shop in their state and do it for them. Both the retailer and the states who decide to collect are paid a fee based on 1/4 of 1% of the FairTax they collected.

But those entities get nothing from blackmarketeers. And those people buying from black markets can receive their Rebates like the people who are paying the tax, so criminals are being subsidized by the FairTax. Then, the FairTax rate would have to be raise to cover the loss, on the backs of the people who believed it would be cheaper than Income Tax!

Originally Posted by Judy

You don't need to steal a SS ID to file an income tax return.

So why do so many illegal aliens steal somebody's ID? Nothing will change there with the FairTax!

Originally Posted by Judy

It's strange to see "conservatives" working so hard to preserve a tax system that rewards importers and illegal aliens at the expense of Americans, and hasn't once in its 105 year history every paid the bills, not once, not even when they thought Clinton had balanced the budget, he hadn't.

The FairTax is supposedly calculated to collect the same amount of revenue that the Income Tax currently does. So, unless the rate is raised, which Congress will be able to do at it's whim, it will accomplish none of what you claim!

Originally Posted by Judy

That was based on "projections" that didn't come to fruition.

Just like your many claims of what the FairTax would do are just projections that will not come to fruition!

Originally Posted by Judy

The FairTax funds the government, robustly funds SS and Medicare, penalizes illegal aliens and importers

WRONG AGAIN! ANOTHER FALSE CLAIM AS IT IS RATED TO EQUAL THE TAXES IT IS REPLACING. IT CURES NOTHING!

Originally Posted by Judy

frees Americans who aren't "retailers" which is the very vast portion of us from any federal tax paperwork obligations of any kind

Unless you want the Rebate or sell something!

Originally Posted by Judy

restores liberty of choice, freedom to spend, invest and save without tax implications

Especially if you evade paying the tax by buying from the newly created, robust black market!

Originally Posted by Judy

Rebates the tax to Americans and Legal Immigrants for necessities up to a limit.

Whether they need it or not!

Originally Posted by Judy

The only question is are Americans still smart enough to grab it and pass it

Not if they recognize the Snake-Oil that it is!