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

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See: House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax


"As a former small business owner, I understand the unnecessary burden our failing income tax system has on Americans. The Fair Tax Act eliminates the tax code, replaces the income tax with a sales tax, and abolishes the abusive Internal Revenue Service. If enacted, this will invigorate the American taxpayer and help more Americans achieve the American Dream," Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., said."


First of all, and with regard to the selling point that the Fair Tax “… abolishes the abusive Internal Revenue Service …”, in its place Duncan’s proposal 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.


Also, the alleged “Fair Tax”, if adopted, does not abolish federal taxes calculated from various types of “incomes” as suggested. Congress will still maintain the power to lay and collect “excise taxes” calculated from profits and gains, such as the Corporate Excise tax of 1909. So, right from the beginning, Rep. Duncan is suggesting something that is not true. The same IRS abuses now suffered under income taxation will continue under the fraudulent and deceptive Fair Tax, carried out under its “Excise Tax Bureau”.


And if you think businesses and individuals subject to the Fair Tax are free from filling out annual tax returns, the shocking truth is, they will have to start filling out and filing Fair Tax returns, under the penalty of perjury, every month ___ that’s twelve frickin times a year! Additionally, even ordinary working people, who sell the property each has in their own labor, and work odd jobs, such as baby sitting, handyman jobs etc., to meet today’s high cost of living, not only will they have to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year, but will have to register with the federal government to exercise their inalienable right to sell their labor.


If the above is not enough to make one recoil from the notoriously evil and deceptive Fair Tax proposal, the Fair Tax would also create another entitlement called the “family consumption allowance”, which is a monthly government check sent to every household in America which allows the purchase of a rationed supply of tax-free necessities of life, and puts our entire population on the public dole!


If Rep. Duncan has one ounce of honesty in him, he would reject the alleged Fait Tax and promote the Fair Share Balance Budget Amendment which actually would abolish all federal taxes calculated from lawfully earned profits, gains, wages, etc. and end the miseries suffered under the evil tax on incomes.


JWK


When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.

It is absolutely sickening how many so-called “conservatives” are promoting the alleged Fair Tax which keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains and other “incomes” alive while imposing an additional tax which increases the number of tax returns required to be filed to 12 frickin times a year!

In any even see:Carter introduces Fair Tax Act

I wonder if these nitwits have actually read the language of the proposed FAIR TAX

JWK


“To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen [a working person’s earned wage] and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation.”____ Savings and Loan Association v.Topeka,(1875).

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When one takes the time to study the provisions of the “Fair Tax” they soon realize ordinary working people, like the married couple down the block, Mary and Joe, will not only have to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year, but register with government to exercise their inalienable right to sell the property each has in their own labor.

Let us look at Mary and Joe who have two children and find it necessary to earn extra money to pay their bills. Mary baby sits for neighbors in the community and cleans homes on weekends to raise extra money while Joe, who works for a plumbing company as a full-time job, also provides plumbing services on his own time to people living in his community.

Under the alleged FairTax Mary and Joe’s inalienable right to sell the property they have in their labor becomes a taxable event and must register with government [“SEC. 502. REGISTRATION”], to sell the property they have in their labor, collect a 23 percent federal tax for Congress [“SEC. 101. IMPOSITION OF SALES TAX] when selling their labor, and file Fair Tax returns under the penalty of perjury twelve times a year [“SEC. 501. MONTHLY REPORTS AND PAYMENTS].

Additionally, Mary and Joe will also be compelled to keep any records Congress may dream up [“SEC. 508. RECORDS] and live under the constant threat of audits [“SEC. 507. SUMMONS, EXAMINATIONS, AUDITS, ETC.], if they dare to sell the property they have in their labor. Now keep in mind how direct taxation is currently being used to threaten, intimidate, and harass political opponents.

Why on earth would any Freedom Caucus member support the Nanny Tax, AKA the Fair Tax?

JWK

"The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property." ___ Butchers’ Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1884)

SEE House Bill Would Reform Tax Code, Eliminate IRS

Saturday January 14, 2023

"Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., reintroduced a bill Monday that would replace the current federal tax structure with a national consumption tax and lead to the elimination of the Internal Revenue Service.


Carter first introduced the Fair Tax Act in January 2021, but it failed to make it out of the Ways and Means Committee. His action comes on the heels of the House voting 221-201 on Monday night to rescind funding for the hiring of 87,000 additional IRS agents stipulated under the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law last year."

What Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., avoid telling their constituents is, the FairTax, which they are trying to shove down the throats of the American people . .

• creates an entirely new tax,
• 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.
• keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect excise taxes calculated from incomes alive,
• requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year,
• requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to sell 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,
• and creates a new entitlement, the Family Consumption Allowance [a monthly government check sent to every family in the U.S.] that would become another wedge issue used during election time to buy votes.

Why on earth would any “conservative” politician support this rope-a-dope proposal which enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks?


If Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., are really determined to offer meaningful federal tax reform, they would introduce the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows:


“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.


NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!


JWK


When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people

SEE: House Republicans Want a Vote On the FairTax. Is It Worth Supporting?

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“The bill would overhaul the nation’s entire tax code, scrapping all federal taxes in favor of the FairTax, a 23 percent national retail sales tax.”

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That is not true! There are a number of other taxes which will still be collected if the FairTax is adopted. See the The Fair Tax Act which 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.


In addition, See Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911) which confirms under Congress' power to lay and collect "excise" taxes, it can and has imposed an excise tax which calculates the amount of tax to be paid from "income", i.e., profits and/or gains. The court stated:

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The Corporation Tax, as imposed by Congress in the Tariff Act of 1909, is not a direct tax, but an excise; it does not fall within the apportionment clause of the Constitution, but is within, and complies with, the provision for uniformity throughout the United States; it is an excise on the privilege of doing business in a corporate capacity,

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There is nothing in the FairTax Act repealing Congress' power to lay and collect countless "excise" taxes calculated from incomes. But the Act, if adopted, does create the new “Excise Tax Bureau,” which is necessary to collect all the new excise taxes Congress dreams up in addition to the new 23 % FairTax.
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JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.

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I see Matt Gaetz is supporting a fraudulent and deceptive Balanced Budget Amendment that would make it constitutional for Congress to not balance the annual budget.

H.J.Res.14 - Proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution of the U.S.


If Matt Gaetz is sincere about encouraging Congress to balance the annual federal budget, he would be supporting the Fair Share Balanced Budget amendment which would actually require Congress to balance the annual budget.



JWK

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I just came across the following article which deals with the alleged “FairTax”.


National Sales Tax Update: Test Vote for the Fair Tax


"As noted in the above clip, I’m very worried about giving untrustworthy politicians a new source of tax revenue without unambiguously and permanently getting rid of the income tax (so that we don’t repeat the European mistake of giving politicians a way of expanding government).


I also worry that a Fair Tax is vulnerable to demagoguery since lawmakers will get hit with election-year ads stating they want a big 30 percent tax on everything people buy (while overlooking that our paychecks will be much bigger once income taxes and payroll taxes are abolished).


Indeed, many sympathizers openly admit that the Fair Tax has vulnerabilities."


One thing for sure is, the FairTax as advertised, is far, far different from what is found in the text of the FairTax Act which:

• creates an entirely new tax,
• 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.
• keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect excise taxes calculated from incomes alive,
• requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year,
• requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to sell 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,
• and creates a new entitlement, the Family Consumption Allowance [a monthly government check sent to every family in the U.S.] that would become another wedge issue used during election time to buy votes.

Why on earth would any “conservative” politician support this rope-a-dope proposal which enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks?


JWK

We need to overhaul our entire tax system and gut that IRS.

End the tax loopholes the swamp passes that they use.

Somebody better come up with a plan that works.

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Originally Posted by Beezer

We need to overhaul our entire tax system and gut that IRS.

End the tax loopholes the swamp passes that they use.

Somebody better come up with a plan that works.

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I agree with you completely, and so far, the best plan in my opinion is the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, which would actually accomplish what the FairTax advertises but doesn't do.


The Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment

“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.

NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!

“SECTION 2. Congress ought not raise money by borrowing, but when the money arising from imposts duties and excise taxes are insufficient to meet the public exigencies, and Congress has raised money by borrowing during the course of a fiscal year, Congress shall then lay a direct tax at the beginning of the next fiscal year for an amount sufficient to extinguish the preceding fiscal year’s deficit, and apply the revenue so raised to extinguishing said deficit.”

NOTE: Congress is to raise its primary revenue from imposts and duties, [taxes at our water’s edge], and may also lay miscellaneous internal excise taxes on specifically chosen articles of consumption. But if Congress borrows and spends more than is brought in from imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes during the course of a fiscal year, then, and only then, is the direct apportioned tax to be laid in order to balance the budget on an annual basis.

“SECTION 3. When Congress is required to lay a direct tax in accordance with Section 1 of this Article, the Secretary of the United States Treasury shall, in a timely manner, calculate each State’s apportioned share of the total sum being raised by dividing its total population size by the total population of the united states and multiplying that figure by the total being raised by Congress, and then provide the various State Congressional Delegations with a Bill notifying their State’s Executive and Legislature of its share of the total tax being collected and a final date by which said tax shall be paid into the United States Treasury.”

In reference to the above Section see: FIRST DIRECT TAX LAID BY CONGRESS, 1798

NOTE: our founder’s fair share formula to extinguish an annual deficit would be:

States’ population
---------------------------- X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE’S FAIR SHARE
Total U.S. Population

The above formula, as intended by our founding fathers, is to ensure that each state’s share towards extinguishing an annual deficit is proportionately equal to its representation in Congress, i.e., representation with a proportional financial obligation! And if the tax is laid directly upon the people by Congress, then everybody taxpayer across the United States pays the exact same amount!

Note also that each State’s number or Representatives, under our Constitution is determined by the rule of apportionment:

State`s Pop.
------------------- X House size (435) = State`s No. of Representatives
U.S. Pop.

“SECTION 4. Each State shall be free to assume and pay its quota of the direct tax into the United States Treasury by a final date set by Congress, but if any State shall refuse or neglect to pay its quota, then Congress shall send forth its officers to assess and levy such State’s proportion against the real property within the State with interest thereon at the rate of ((?)) per cent per annum, and against the individual owners of the taxable property. Provision shall be made for a 15% discount for those States paying their share by ((?))of the fiscal year in which the tax is laid, and a 10% discount for States paying by the final date set by Congress, such discount being to defray the States’ cost of collection.”

NOTE: This section respects the Tenth Amendment and allows each state to raise its share of a direct tax in its own chosen way in a time period set by Congress, but also allows the federal government to enter a state and collect the tax if a state is delinquent in meeting its obligation.

"SECTION 5. This Amendment to the Constitution, when ratified by the required number of States, shall take effect no later than (?) years after the required number of States have ratified it.

Not only that we need to cut off all foreign aid. These countries can pay their own bills. We are not the ATM machine for these corrupt countries. This is nothing but extortion.

We need bring our troops home and stop defending the world's borders. We need to defend our own with our troops. These countries can enlist their own men and women to defend their borders.

Cut off all funding for immigration, ALL of it! Apply to come legally, pay your way, only 500,000 per year under ONE program and terminate all other programs.

Enforce Public Charge. These foreigners cannot pay their way they are deported!

No more pork bills. Stand alone bills, pass them on on time, vote in person, or you forefeit your pay and are fired!

Trillions of dollars wasted that come out of our paychecks.

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Originally Posted by Beezer

Not only that we need to cut off all foreign aid. These countries can pay their own bills. We are not the ATM machine for these corrupt countries. This is nothing but extortion.

We need bring our troops home and stop defending the world's borders. We need to defend our own with our troops. These countries can enlist their own men and women to defend their borders.

Cut off all funding for immigration, ALL of it! Apply to come legally, pay your way, only 500,000 per year under ONE program and terminate all other programs.

Enforce Public Charge. These foreigners cannot pay their way they are deported!

No more pork bills. Stand alone bills, pass them on on time, vote in person, or you forefeit your pay and are fired!

Trillions of dollars wasted that come out of our paychecks.

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When my dad came here and passed the Statute of Liberty on his way to Elis Island, and when those who took their oath of office and actually advanced the general welfare of the United States and her citizens, “immigrants” were not granted entry into the United States for a number of reasons. One reason to be rejected was the likelihood of becoming a ward of the state and a “public charge”, and on this ground alone “immigrants” were refused entry!

Additionally “. . . unescorted women and children were detained until their safety was assured through the arrival of a telegram, letter, or a pre-paid ticket from a waiting relative. Immigration officials refused to send single women into the streets alone, nor could they leave with a man not related to them. Fiancées, reunited with their intended husbands, often married on the spot.” SOURCE


Others detained “ . . . included stowaways, alien seamen, anarchists, Bolsheviks, criminals and those judged to be "immoral." SOURCE


Admittance into the interior of the United States also required a medical inspection of all immigrants, and if an inspection officer detected an applicant with a disease, especially contagious diseases (TB, venereal disease, etc.) and even mental illness, they were rejected.

The sad truth is our federal government has become one of our most formidable enemies and is working to destroy the United States from within.


JWK

There is no surer way to weaken, subdue and bring to its knees a prosperous and freedom loving country than by flooding it with deadly drugs, an inflated currency and the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminal populations of other countries. So why is the Biden Administration engaging in this very act?

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Getting back to the subject of the thread, the following seems to confirm our Republican Congress critters are very much part of the Washington Establishment’s never-ending push to enlarge and consolidate power in their hands.

See: Is GOP Freedom Caucus Pushing for a 30% Sales Tax in US?

My pet question goes unanswered:

Why on earth would any freedom loving, Republican member of Congress, support the rope-a-dope FairTax Act proposal which, if adopted, enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron fisted taxing grip around the American people’s necks?

Why do they not support and work to adopt the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows?

“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.

JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.

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I see the Republican Leadership in the House is still promoting a fraudulent and deceptive tax reform idea which would actually enlarge the federal government’s taxing authority. And our popular media is cleverly covering up what the FairTax scheme would actually do.

See: House GOP keeps up attacks on IRS with bill to abolish the agency

By Katie Lobosco, CNN, Mon January 23, 2023​

"The Republicans’ Fair Tax Act is not a new idea. A version was first introduced in Congress in 1999. It’s never had enough support to become law, but it puts forth an appealing message to those Americans who love to hate the federal tax agency.

It would get rid of the complicated federal tax system, doing away with the annual task of filing tax returns. Instead, the bill would replace federal taxes on individual and corporate income with a national 23% sales tax …"



Of course, Katie Lobosco of CNN misrepresents and does not report that the “FairTax” plan, if adopted, would increase the annual tax return filing to twelve frickin times a year!
Why do they continue to lie about the FairTax? See: [“CHAPTER 5, OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS, SEC. 501. MONTHLY REPORTS AND PAYMENTS].

JWK

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.” ― Evita Ochel

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Once again, the “FairTax” is misrepresented. This time by Adam Hardy,​

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.J74SO6...=100&h=100&c=7


Money.com, author of the following article:​


Here's How the Proposed National Sales Tax Would Work


Adam Hardy, author of the article, asserts:

"However, the act proposes much more than dismantling the IRS, and the framework has been around for decades. In its current iteration, the Fair Tax Act would get rid of every type of current federal tax — including payroll, self-employment, estate, death and corporate taxes — and replace them with a nationwide 23% retail tax that happens at the checkout counter for new goods and services."

The truth is, the FairTax does not “. . . get rid of every type of current federal tax — .”

For example, under the alleged FairTax, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, subtitle E (relating to alcohol, tobacco, and certain other excise taxes) is simply redesignated as subtitle C and will still be collected by the newly created “Excise Tax Bureau”, while the newly created “Sales Tax Bureau” will be collecting the new 23 percent tax on articles of consumption and upon “taxable property” which is also taxed under the alleged FairTax.

I know it takes time to dig through the weasel wording of the alleged FairTax Act, but those who report on it, should take the time to study it before making inaccurate statements concerning it.

Had Adam Hardy done his job and studied the Bill, he would have found “SEC. 302. ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER FEDERAL TAXES”

(a) IN GENERAL. — Section 7801 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the authority of the Department of the Treasury) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(d) EXCISE TAX BUREAU. — There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Excise Tax Bureau to administer those excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“(e) SALES TAX BUREAU. — There shall be in the Department of the Treasury a Sales Tax Bureau to administer the national sales tax in those States where it is required pursuant to section 404, and to discharge other Federal duties and powers relating to the national sales tax (including those required by sections 402, 403, and 405). The Office of Revenue Allocation shall be within the Sales Tax Bureau."

As I previously pointed out, contrary to Adam Hardy’s assertion, the FairTax does not “. . . get rid of every type of current federal tax — .”​

JWK

We are here today and gone tomorrow, but what is most important is what we do in-between and is what our children will inherit and remember us by.

Good News!

See:

Utah Republican withdraws cosponsorship of GOP tax plan amid nonstop Dem attacks

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"The so-called "Fair Tax" plan being pushed by some House Republicans is facing even steeper hurdles to passage now that one of its cosponsors has withdrawn his support."

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Why is this good news you ask? I say so because of what the FairTax would do if adopted.

If the FAIRTAX ACT were passed into law 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 on earth would any politician, especially a conservative leader after studying the proposed legislation, support this dastardly evil proposal which would enlarge and strengthen the federal government’s iron fisted taxing grip around the American peoples’ necks?

JWK






We are here today and gone tomorrow, but what is most important is what we do in between and is what our children will inherit and remember us by.

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See: The GOP's Fair Tax Masochism

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The plan is called the Fair Tax and its premise is simple: Replace every existing federal tax with a new national tax on sales.

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Seems that the nitwittery, or perhaps laziness by the WSJ’s Editorial Board, is a common characteristic of today’s popular media.

As documented HERE, the FAIRTAX ACT would not "Replace every existing federal tax with a new national tax on sales”, nor does the legislation remotely suggest it would. So why is this factually inaccurate representation constantly being asserted about the FairTax by our popular media outlets?

This same misrepresentation was constantly reported in the 1990s when the fair tax was introduced. And it was totally false then as it is now. So why has it been misrepresented all these years [about 25 years], and continues, to this very date, to be misrepresented by our mainstream media?

Something very suspicious seems to be afoot when our popular media act in concert and falsely report, for so many years, that the FairTax would "Replace every existing federal tax with a new national tax on sales."

JWK

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.” ― Evita Ochel

Here is an interesting article from Forbes on the “FairTax”, which is suspiciously and woefully void of its actual provisions that document its evil expansion of powers connected to raising a federal revenue.

SEE: Fair Tax Combines Flawed Policy With Terrible Politics

"Contrary to Senate Leader Chuck Schumer’s allegations, House Republicans are not going to pass a national sales tax. Fair Tax supporters don’t need to be totally disappointed though, as many states have made progress in adopting and moving toward..."

JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.

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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.

See:

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.:

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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.

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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

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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:

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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

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"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

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"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."

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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.

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Originally Posted by Beezer

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.

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Talking about the "corrupt money-grubbing swamp", almost everything this Administration is doing is an outright attack on the general welfare of the United States and her citizens, e.g.:

Flooding the United States with millions upon millions of poverty-stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminal foreign nationals;

Allowing deadly drugs to pour across our border which is killing our nation's youth;

Hollowing out our military’s seasoned officers, troops, seamen and pilots by discharging them for not being injected with an ineffective and experimental “vaccine”;

Allowing the Chinese Communist Party to fly their intelligence gathering air-craft over our military installations

Draining our militaries weapons of defense by transferring them into the hands of foreign nationals;

Emptying out our strategic oil reserve which is specifically intended for use in a national emergency such as war;

Shutting down our nation’s ability to produce cheap fuel needed for our nation’s manufacturing competitiveness;

Imposing unrealistic regulations upon our nation’s businesses and industries which in turn is destroying our manufacturing capabilities and global competitiveness;

Flooding our country with a worthless paper currency causing consumer goods to double and even triple in price;

Working to transfer our nation’s technology to hostile foreign countries . . .

And the list goes on and on and proving this Administration and the Democrat Party Leadership is engaged in traitorous policies and intentionally working to bring the United States to its knees.

JWK

There is no surer way to weaken, subdue and bring to its knees a prosperous and freedom loving country than by flooding it with deadly drugs, an inflated currency and the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminal populations of other countries.

And giving Electric Vehicle "tax breaks" to the wealthy who are the only ones who can afford to buy these $80,000+ EV's.

Democrats are such lying hypocrites who pass tax laws and loopholes that THEY use to pay as little taxes as possible then blame it on the Republicans. What a putrid swamp this is.

We need to wipe the slate clean of all of them and demand Term Limits. No lobbyist payoffs, no dark money campaign donations and ONLY legal U.S. citizens of the state can contribute to their candidate. No more California, Zuckerburg, Gates and Soros donating to states campaigns they do not reside in.

Funding the corrupt United Nations and then the UN gives OUR money, in debit cards, to illegal aliens to invade our country and destroy us.

Add to the fact they are allowing China and foreign governments to buy up our land, use up our water, to grow food and control our food sources! Food and alfalfa which they use our water to grow and then ship out of our country. What a racket!

No foreign government, non-citizens, illegal aliens, refugees, TPS, asylum liars, or foreign persons should be able to buy ANY real estate here, be it land, commercial buildings, or housing. Lease only.



This is like a science fiction horror movie.

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And giving Electric Vehicle "tax breaks" to the wealthy who are the only ones who can afford to buy these $80,000+ EV's.

Democrats are such lying hypocrites who pass tax laws and loopholes that THEY use to pay as little taxes as possible then blame it on the Republicans. What a putrid swamp this is.

We need to wipe the slate clean of all of them and demand Term Limits. No lobbyist payoffs, no dark money campaign donations and ONLY legal U.S. citizens of the state can contribute to their candidate. No more California, Zuckerburg, Gates and Soros donating to states campaigns they do not reside in.

Funding the corrupt United Nations and then the UN gives OUR money, in debit cards, to illegal aliens to invade our country and destroy us.

Add to the fact they are allowing China and foreign governments to buy up our land, use up our water, to grow food and control our food sources! Food and alfalfa which they use our water to grow and then ship out of our country. What a racket!

No foreign government, non-citizens, illegal aliens, refugees, TPS, asylum liars, or foreign persons should be able to buy ANY real estate here, be it land, commercial buildings, or housing. Lease only.



This is like a science fiction horror movie.

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And part of that horror movie is the proposed FairTax Act and its objective which is to increase the federal government's taxing capabilities with an additional tax, a 23 % tax ". . . on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services.”

See: “SEC. 101. IMPOSITION OF SALES TAX.

“(a) In General.—There is hereby imposed a tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services.”


What is the reasoning for giving Congress a new source of tax revenue when it has proven to not only squander our hard earn money and engage in reckless spending, but spends our money on objects which we, the People, have not agreed to by our written Constitution?

How much of our federal tax dollars are now being spent by this Administration to assist and encourage the invasion at our southern border by millions upon millions of the worlds the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminals? Are American citizens not being made into tax slaves and second-class citizens by the Biden Administration?
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See: Biden’s welcome program for illegal immigrants

April 12, 2022

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"Biden is rolling out the welcome mat.

Illegal border-crossers will no longer be treated like criminals. More like customers. The president’s fiscal budget, presented March 28, cuts funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by 8%, despite an expected surge in migrants, and reduces detention beds. Meanwhile, he’s increasing funding a whopping 700% for “noncitizen processing and care,” speedier service and more flights and ground transportation.

Kind of like a travel agency."

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And now, we find members in Congress want to give our federal government an additional source to raise revenue . . . the FairTax Act which would create a 23 % tax on consumption and taxable property owned by American Citizens. You bet this is like a horror movie!

JWK

What will it take for American Citizens to accept the fact that their homeland is under attack orchestrated by the Biden Administration?

Thank you for your input and insight JWK.

These corrupt, lying, swamp rats are so deviant in all the ways they hatch up these plans to tax us to death and rip us off while they get rich through their tax loopholes, never ending wars, insider trading, give themselves raises and make us pay for their Peloton memberships, perks, and benefits!

And now these evil psychopaths have the GAUL, in our face, to squander our money on trillion-dollar spending bills on illegal aliens and foreign countries who do not deserve a dime of our hard work that we EARNED in our paychecks.

WE are supplementing the paychecks of corrupt Pakistan military members!!!! We are funding gender studies in Pakistan! We have funded shrimp on treadmills and a host of ridiculous programs these morons cook up in their heads. This is an outrage waste and abuse of money out of our wallets!

They are destroying our lives, jobs, and country. What a sad day in America that we have come to this. They would have nothing if it were not for the blood, sweat, and tears of the hardworking Americans who have fought for this country and what we have achieved.

We need Term Limits, and we need to vote these traitors out of office and replace them with American's First patriots. We need to shrink this bloated government down to the bare minimum and take the damn checkbook away from them.

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Originally Posted by Beezer

Thank you for your input and insight JWK.

These corrupt, lying, swamp rats are so deviant in all the ways they hatch up these plans to tax us to death and rip us off while they get rich through their tax loopholes, never ending wars, insider trading, give themselves raises and make us pay for their Peloton memberships, perks, and benefits!

And now these evil psychopaths have the GAUL, in our face, to squander our money on trillion-dollar spending bills on illegal aliens and foreign countries who do not deserve a dime of our hard work that we EARNED in our paychecks.

WE are supplementing the paychecks of corrupt Pakistan military members!!!! We are funding gender studies in Pakistan! We have funded shrimp on treadmills and a host of ridiculous programs these morons cook up in their heads. This is an outrage waste and abuse of money out of our wallets!

They are destroying our lives, jobs, and country. What a sad day in America that we have come to this. They would have nothing if it were not for the blood, sweat, and tears of the hardworking Americans who have fought for this country and what we have achieved.

We need Term Limits, and we need to vote these traitors out of office and replace them with American's First patriots. We need to shrink this bloated government down to the bare minimum and take the damn checkbook away from them.

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And let us not forget our corrupted and traitorous media which works in concert with our domestic enemies to weaken and destroy the United States from within.

JWK


Today’s Fifth Column media ___ Rolling Stone, Hollywood, MSNBC, NEW YORK TIMES, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, WASHINGTON POST, ATLANTIC MAGAZINE, New York Daily News, Time, in addition to Facebook, Google, Apple, Politico, Snopes, Fact Check… ETC., and countless Yellow Journalists who are socialist revolutionaries ___ make Russia’s old Pravda, [an organ of the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union] look like propaganda amateurs.

I’m still waiting for one Republican House member who supports the FairTax Act to exhibit the courage of their belief and explain why they embrace creating a new Federal entitlement called the Family Consumption Allowance.

Why is it that not one of the twenty-five FairTax Act’s Co-Sponsors willing to publicly explain why they are so eager to create this new federal entitlement, and make approximately 40 million American citizens dependent upon our federal government for a monthly and rationed supply of tax-free necessities of life? Is their silence not suspicious to say the least?

As Hamilton pointed out: A POWER OVER A MAN’s SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL ____ Hamilton, No. 79 Federalist Papers

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With all the great and informed posters in this forum, I was wondering if one could provide an estimated figure, or a link, showing the total annual dollar amount our federal government would have to dole out to finance the new entitlement that would be created under the FairTax which is called the “Family Consumption Allowance.” I can’t find anything on the Web estimating the cost of this proposed federal entitlement. Not even at the fairtax web site. Kind of suspicious, wouldn't you think?

JWK

I just checked to see if there has been any activity in the House on the FairTax Act. It has been sent to the House Committee on Ways and Means and seems that no further action has taken place since January 9th, 2023.

JWK

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Has anyone noticed that it is next to impossible to find any mainstream media, including Fox News, which evaluates the destructive political effects of the FairTax Act’s proposed Family Consumption Allowance?


While our media is currently full of stories about our “third-rail” entitlement called Social Security, and how Republican Congress critters are looking cut Social Security, while Democrat Congress critters are looking to save Social Security, nothing is said about creating another “third-rail’ entitlement under the notoriously evil and deceptive FairTax Act.


I’m still waiting for at least one of the twenty-five FairTax Act’s Republican Co-Sponsors to explain why they embrace creating this new Federal entitlement . . . the Family Consumption Allowance which, like Social Security, is a very bad and dangerous idea, especially since it would make another huge voting block entirely dependent upon government for a monthly and rationed supply of tax-free necessities of life.


Are they not aware of the maxim stated by Hamilton? “A POWER OVER A MAN’s SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL” ____ Hamilton, No. 79 Federalist Papers


Why has our mainstream media, including Fox News, not evaluated the predictable and devastating political effects of creating a new and massive, federal entitlement?



And why would any freedom loving Republican in Congress support this patently evil tax reform which would enlarge Congress' taxing capabilities and tighten the iron fist of government around the American people’s necks?


JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.

Social Security in the past ran annual surpluses and lent that surplus money to the Treasury. In those years, the existence of Social Security reduced the federal budget deficit. Today, it is relying on a cash infusion from the Treasury to pay full benefits.”


Cut off the trillions of dollars of government waste!

And local Lottery dollars should be put in the Social Security and Medicare funds.

Fund that, not "woke" education.

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Social Security in the past ran annual surpluses and lent that surplus money to the Treasury. In those years, the existence of Social Security reduced the federal budget deficit. Today, it is relying on a cash infusion from the Treasury to pay full benefits.”


Cut off the trillions of dollars of government waste!

And local Lottery dollars should be put in the Social Security and Medicare funds.

Fund that, not "woke" education.

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When Social Security was started, it was meant to help and encourage American workers to save for their retirement years so they would not be left totally destitute and without any resources to purchase the bare necessities of life.

In 1945 about ten years after Social Security was started, it was only .29 % of the federal budget. Today, Social Security accounts for more than a quarter of all federal spending!

The most obvious problem with allowing our federal government to create social welfare “entitlements” is, once created, history have proven they are used during federal election time by nefariously evil politicians to buy votes with the promise to increase the entitlement, and so, they grow exponentially like a virus, as Social Security has, and to the point of consuming desperately needed federal revenue to finance those specified functions found beneath Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, for which Congress was granted the power to lay and collect taxes.

The proposed Family Consumption Allowance entitlement would dwarf the devastating political effects which Social Security has introduced into our federal elections, and it would further divided the American people in a never ending battle between the rich and poor, while immoral and self-righteous politicians instigate such divisions rather than warn the American people to avoid entering upon this suicidal path.

JWK

We are here today and gone tomorrow, but what is most important is what we do in-between and is what our children will inherit and remember us by.

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Well, this is interesting. As of February 10th, 2023, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO) has not scheduled any movement on the alleged FairTax Act of 2023.


CLICK HERE for Updates - House Committee on Ways and Means


My advice to Chairman Smith is to let it die rather than have its uniformed Co-Sponsors attempt to defend it publically. They made a mistake, but I hope this has been a lesson for the 25 Republican Co-Sponsors . . . always read proposed legislation and do not take the word of slithering snake scoundrels like Neal Boortz and Senator Lindsey Graham, who did everything imaginable to misrepresent what the alleged fair tax would do.


Let us never forget the lesson taught us by Nancy Pelosi

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https://youtu.be/KoE1R-xH5To

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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I just came across the following article:

Some GOP Lawmakers Want to Overhaul the Tax System. Voters Are Mostly Against Their Plan

February 15, 2023


"51% of registered voters oppose a bill that would replace the current progressive income tax system in the United States with a national sales tax on goods and services, a dramatic change to the U.S. tax system proposed in House Republicans’ FairTax Act of 2023."

I’ll bet that at least 90% of registered voters would oppose the FairTax Act if they actually knew what it proposes. So, let us take a look at some of its actual provisions:


If the FairTax ACT were passed into law the following explains some of its specific provisions.


It would create 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.


See: SEC. 302. ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER FEDERAL TAXES.

(a) In General.—Section 7801 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the authority of the Department of the Treasury) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(d) Excise Tax Bureau.—There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Excise Tax Bureau to administer those excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“(e) Sales Tax Bureau.—There shall be in the Department of the Treasury a Sales Tax Bureau to administer the national sales tax in those States where it is required pursuant to section 404, and to discharge other Federal duties and powers relating to the national sales tax (including those required by sections 402, 403, and 405). The Office of Revenue Allocation shall be within the Sales Tax Bureau.”.


It imposes a new 23% “FairTax” on “the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services” while Congress’ power to continue to lay and collect taxes on “incomes” remains fully intact;


See: “SEC. 101. IMPOSITION OF SALES TAX.


“(a) In General.—There is hereby imposed a tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services.”


The FairTax Act does not withdraw Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, wages, tips and other lawfully realized incomes. It merely promises a repeal of the 16th Amendment within seven years, and this is after the new 23% tax has been put into operation.


See SEC. 401. ELIMINATION OF SALES TAX IF SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT NOT REPEALED.


“If the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not repealed before the end of the 7-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, then all provisions of, and amendments made by, this Act shall not apply to any use or consumption in any year beginning after December 31 of the calendar year in which or with which such period ends, except that the Sales Tax Bureau of the Department of the Treasury shall not be terminated until 6 months after such December 31.”


The FairTax Act also increases the number of federal tax returns required to be filed from one to twelve Federal tax returns a year;


See: “SEC. 501. MONTHLY REPORTS AND PAYMENTS.”


“(a) Tax Reports And Filing Dates.—
“(1) IN GENERAL.—On or before the 15th day of each month, each person who is—
“(A) liable to collect and remit the tax imposed by this subtitle by reason of section 103(a), or
“(B) liable to pay tax imposed by this subtitle which is not collected pursuant to section 103(a),
shall submit to the appropriate sales tax administering authority (in a form prescribed by the Secretary) a report relating to the previous calendar month.


The FairTax Act also 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.


See “SEC. 502. REGISTRATION.”


“(a) In General.—Any person liable to collect and remit taxes pursuant to section 103(a) who is engaged in a trade or business shall register as a seller with the sales tax administering authority administering the taxes imposed by this subtitle.


The FT also requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government;


See “SEC. 103. RULES RELATING TO COLLECTION AND REMITTANCE OF TAX.”


“(a) Liability For Collection And Remittance Of The Tax.—Except as provided otherwise by this section, any tax imposed by this subtitle shall be collected and remitted by the seller of taxable property or services (including financial intermediation services).


the FairTax also requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up in the future;


See “SEC. 501. MONTHLY REPORTS AND PAYMENTS.”


“(a) Tax Reports And Filing Dates.—
“(1) IN GENERAL.—On or before the 15th day of each month, each person who is—
“(A) liable to collect and remit the tax imposed by this subtitle by reason of section 103(a), or
“(B) liable to pay tax imposed by this subtitle which is not collected pursuant to section 103(a),
shall submit to the appropriate sales tax administering authority (in a form prescribed by the Secretary) a report relating to the previous calendar month.


The alleged FairTax also sneakily allows Congress to lay and collect countless “excise taxes” in addition to the new 23% FairTax, which members of Congress may dream up, and can be calculated from profits, gains and other incomes.


See SEC. 302. ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER FEDERAL TAXES”


(a) In General.—Section 7801 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the authority of the Department of the Treasury) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(d) Excise Tax Bureau.—There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Excise Tax Bureau to administer those excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.


And, the FairTax Act 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, just like Social Security, 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.


See “SEC. 301. FAMILY CONSUMPTION ALLOWANCE”.


“Each qualified family shall be eligible to receive a sales tax rebate each month. The sales tax rebate shall be in an amount equal to the product of—
“(1) the rate of tax imposed by section 101, and
“(2) the monthly poverty level.”

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Why on earth would any politician or freedom loving American citizen, after studying the proposed legislation, support this dastardly evil tax reform which would enlarge and strengthen the federal government’s iron fisted taxing grip around the American peoples’ necks?


JWK

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See: Republicans call it a 'fair' sales tax plan, but it would cost most Arizonans more

Raúl M. Grijalva

Mon, February 13, 2023

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“All told, the Fair Tax will force lower-budget households to choose between lifesaving medicine or groceries, but for wealthy families, it’s a savings opportunity.”

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Instead of sticking to the specific sections of the FairTax Act and their self-evident consequences, Raúl M. Grijalva spends his time agitating and instigating, and stirring the rich vs poor, and the Republicans are bad guys crap.

Seems quite suspicious why Mr. Grijalva makes no mention of how the FairTax Act, if adopted, would broaden Congress’s tax collecting capabilities in defiance of our Constitution, and create the largest federal entitlement in our nation’s history which would dwarf Social Security, and make the vast majority of our nation’s voters helplessly dependent upon our federal government for a monthly supply of rationed, tax free necessities of life.

And what is even more suspicious is, why is it next to impossible to find a single mainstream media outlet [New York Times, Washington Post, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR and, etc.] which has reported on the devastating consequences tied to the FairTax Act’s specific Sections as outlined HERE? Seems pretty obvious all we get is the popular media agitating and instigating, and stirring the rich vs poor, and the Republicans are bad-guys crap.

JWK

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.” ― Evita Ochel

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Some GOP Lawmakers Want to Overhaul the Tax System. Voters Are Mostly Against Their Plan

February 15, 2023

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"51% of registered voters oppose a bill that would replace the current progressive income tax system in the United States with a national sales tax on goods and services, a dramatic change to the U.S. tax system proposed in House Republicans’ FairTax Act of 2023.

Voters are split when it comes to tax reform that would effectively eliminate the Internal Revenue Service, with 41% prefering to keep things the same or making minor changes and 36% in favor of a system without the IRS.

When asked how much they had seen, read or heard about the FairTax proposal, 36% of voters said they had heard “a lot” or “some,” while 64% said they had heard “not much” or “nothing at all.”

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JWK


If the Authoritarian Democrat Party Leadership gets its way under Biden, it will have imported over 10 million of the world’s poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled and criminal populations of other countries into our country, and our nations needy citizens will pay the price.

There still seems to be no movement in House Ways and Means Committee on the alleged FairTax Act. See: Updates - House Committee on Ways and Means