Thread: President Trump should work to repeal and replace Obamacare with nothing!

Johnwk, the FairTax abolishes the federal income tax in the United States, it repeals every federal law that collects an income-based tax. It repeals personal income tax, corporate income tax, estate tax, dividends tax, interest tax, capital gains tax, payroll tax and gift tax. It abolishes the Internal Revenue Service. It removes 77,000 pages of income tax code from our laws. It also calls for separate legislation to repeal the 16th Amendment.

In its place it implements a retail sales tax on new goods and services of 23% which is the same amount of revenue that income tax rates in 1999 the first year the FairTax legislation was introduced provided for. It earmarks 8,09% of FairTaxes to fund Social Security and Medicare with the remaining 14.91% earmarked to fund general revenue.

It has a rebate that reimburses all citizens and legal residents who want to sign up for it every year for FairTaxes paid on essentials based on an actuarial formula so people aren't paying the sales tax on essential spending to live. The amount per citizen is based on age and is capped at the household consumption allowance determined annually by HHS plus 1 adult so the cap is a little higher than the poverty rate income, as it should be.

We're in the same black hole on this that we've always been in, Johnwk. I don't understand why you want to promote an existing apportionment rule in the US constitution that no one in our history has ever used to fund the federal government, not once, not even the Founders who wrote it in. It was never intended to be used as the regular revenue source, only for emergencies and shortfalls that couldn't be met otherwise, or they would have used it, Johnwk. But, they didn't. So, there is probably good reason for that. The Founders didn't want to tax states with mandates, they didn't want to tax our citizens with mandates, that's why there are no tax mandates in the US Constitution. They wanted to tax goods and services and pay for our government through taxes on trade and commerce, not states, not citizens, not people, not earnings, not incomes, bur purchases of products, voluntarily bought.

Using the apportionment rule as a primary means of funding the federal government is it's own form of tyranny, and was only a provision in the event of war or circumstances that might block trade that would result in shortfalls in tariff collections temporarily.

I want to make our country better by fixing it, not reinvent it. As a citizen, and speaking only for myself, I would prefer the FairTax because there is no mandate on me. As a business person if I sell or rent to consumers, then I'm responsible for collecting the FairTax at time of purchase or collection and sending it in to the States on a simple state sales tax form that I would have to file now for the state. As a consumer, I look at the price which has the FairTax built in to it and decide whether I want to buy it or not. If I do, I pay for it and am given a receipt for the portion of the price that is FairTax. I probably wouldn't mess with it, but if I wanted or need to, I could also sign up for the Rebate, a simple form to fill out, once a year, something you can probably do on line and the Social Security Administration handles it because it requires your social security number.

We're a Republic, and states have a lot of power and authority over things, but we're still a nation of the people, by the people and for the people, so the people should fund the federal government, because it is our government. I prefer to align directly with the funding of the federal government as a consumer, rather than a trapped slave of a state under apportionment. All the tyranny that we now face in this country has either been by the states or on their behalf.

There is no "sanctuary" for Americans in a State in my opinion. They are and have shown themselves to be the primary culprits behind most of the wrongs in our nation. The bigger the state, the more power, influence and corruption it has. Why would you want to realign one set of crooks in DC with 50 more sets in the States?

Makes no sense to me.

FAIRTAX NOW!!

HR 25 in the US House of Representatives and S 18 in the US Senate.