Originally Posted by
johnwk
Judy, I am not wrong, and you know it.
The alleged "FairTax" is intentionally designed to create two new tax collecting agencies, the “Excise Tax Bureau” … and a “Sales Tax Bureau”, not to mention it keeps the “Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” open for business. In addition, the alleged FairTax keeps Congress' power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes alive under Congress' power to lay and collect internal excise taxes.
Tell me Judy, why do you think the alleged fairtax creates an "Excise Tax Bureau"?
Under the alleged fairtax, is it not true that Congress can lay and collect excise taxes calculated from profits and gains, such as the Corporate Excise tax of 1909? If Congress can, then your statement that the fairtax gets rid of income based taxes is not true. Corporations will still be subject to income based taxes in addition to the alleged fairtax.
Additionally, is it not true that ordinary people who sell the property they have in their labor, will be subject to paying a tax to government based on the dollar amount of each sale? And, is it not also true that ordinary people will also pay a tax on the products they purchase? If this is true then ordinary people will be paying at least three taxes under the alleged fair tax: one on the sale of their labor; one on the products they purchase; and one on services they purchase. And this does not even take into account countless excise taxes Congress may dream up.
Why do you not support actually tying Congress' hand with the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment which begins with the following 32 words?
“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.
Tell me Judy, do the above words, unlike the fairtax, actually end "income-based taxes" which seems to be your objective?
JWK
“…..with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities“. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address