Thread: Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., gives thumbs up to Fair Tax legislation (H.R. 25)

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I see Rep. Buddy Carter has yet to address a number of very real concerns should the FairTax Act be adopted.

Although Buddy Carter presents a piece titled Myth v. Fact: The FairTax Act, nowhere does he address how the proposed legislation would actually increase the federal government’s taxing capabilities, and cause more miseries for the American people then they now suffer under the current evil system of taxation, if the FairTax were adopted and are listed HERE


The only reasonable explanation I can think of as to why Rep. Buddy Carter has latched onto the so-called FairTax is, that he has not studied the text of the Bill himself and is relying on one or more of his lazy staff members representations of H.R. 25 which they may have gotten from the propaganda and misrepresentations found at the fairtax web site, or in the fair tax book authored by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder, both of whom have done a disservice to working for real tax reform.


JWK


“…a national revenue must be obtained; but the system must be such a one, that, while it secures the object of revenue it shall not be oppressive to our constituents.”___ ___Madison, during the creation of our Nation’s first revenue raising Act

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See: Democrats Misleadingly Suggest Widespread GOP Support for FairTax Bill Unlikely to Become Law

It seems to me the only Republicans who support the FairTax Act are those who have not studied the proposed legislation; those who embrace enlarging Congress' taxing capabilities, or total nitwits.

JWK


There is no “humanitarian crisis” at our southern border as erroneously reported on Fox News. It is an outright invasion of the United States, intentionally orchestrated and perpetuated by the leadership of our tyrannical federal government which includes traitorous, judges, legislators, and our current president of the United States.

Here is another deceptive article about the FairTax Act.

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What is the Fair Tax Act? Republicans propose national sales tax


"Members of the GOP in the House are pushing for a chamber debate on radical new tax proposals that would slash funding to the IRS."

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Of course, the article avoids listing how, if adotped, it consolidates more authoritarian taxing power in the hands of our federal government, e.g it.:

creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive, which will also be collecting taxes.


Imposes the new 23% “FairTax” on American citizens and businesses while Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes on “incomes” remains fully intact;


requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year;


requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to exercise a fundamental right of mankind . . . selling the property each has in their own labor;


requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government;


requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up;


allows Congress to lay and collect countless “excise taxes” which members of Congress may dream up, and could be calculated from profits, gains and other incomes;


creates a new entitlement, the “Family Consumption Allowance” [a monthly government check sent to every “qualified family” in the U.S.] that would become another political partisan wedge-issue used during election time to buy votes in addition to making an enormously large segment of those who vote extremely dependent upon government to access their monthly necessities of life.

Why is our popular media so negligent in not reporting how the “FairTax Act” is really designed, to strengthen the federal government’s iron fisted taxing powers?


JWK

There is no “humanitarian crisis” at our southern border as erroneously reported on Fox News. It is an outright invasion of the United States, intentionally orchestrated and perpetuated by the leadership of our tyrannical federal government which includes traitorous, judges, legislators, and our current president of the United States.

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See: FactCheck.org Calls Out Biden and Dems for Lying About “FAIR Tax” Viability

1/30/23

FactCheck.org has called out President Biden, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrats lying about the viability of the “Fair Tax,” a 30% national sales tax (not even including state and local sales taxes) that would create a new entitlement program and lead to a European-style Value Added Tax:

The bottom line is, as confirmed by the above article, the FairTax Act is a very, very bad idea and would enlarge our federal Governments taxing capabilities and it certainly does not have “Widespread GOP Support”.


In fact, there is only a handful of Republicans who support the alleged FairTax.



The only reasonable explanation I can think of as to why Rep. Buddy Carter has latched onto the so-called FairTax is, that he has not studied the text of the Bill himself and is relying on one or more of his lazy staff members representations of H.R. 25 which they may have gotten from the propaganda and misrepresentations found at the fairtax web site, or in the fair tax book authored by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder, both of whom have done a disservice to working on real tax reform.



JWK

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See: “Fair” tax: Terrible idea that just won’t die

Jan 28, 2023

"It was a bad idea when Neal Boortz and John Linder published The Fairtax Book (which should have been subtitled “Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Badly”) in 2005."

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See: More On The Fair Tax Act Of 2023

"Thanks to some positive feedback on my recent piece, I have decided to dig deeper into the Fair Tax Act of 2023. The Reader's Digest version of the act is that it eliminates federal corporate and individual income tax, payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare, estate tax and gift tax."

Of course, the author never really points out how the alleged fairtax actually establishes a new 23% federal tax which is in addition to Congress still maintaining the power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other "incomes".

I was just on Cspan about the Fair Tax and a caller mentioned, how does a 30% consumption tax affect Seniors, low-income, etc.

And there will be more Black Market selling of goods to avoid it. Just like the tax on marijuana, now we have a Black Market. They thought they would rake in the dough on pot sales. Only to squander the money on their pet projects.

This corrupt money-grubbing swamp needs to GUT the IRS, lower our taxes and stop wasting our hard-earned tax dollars.