Comments by FairTaxJeff
Page 1 of 1
Posted on February 12 at 1:26 p.m.
curious if you even read the Fair Tax, before critiquing it?
Posted on January 5 at 11:39 a.m.
Grassroots update - if you figure Huckabee at 33% of GOP voters, then the "surge" just made it 20,000,000 grassroots supporters!
It really is a proposal for broad economic reform, of the type never before seen/done in modern economic times. Naysayers pick apart one aspect or two, without even considering the bigger picture.
My view is 1) the fact that ONLY citizens pay taxes - business do not (they only pass thru taxes collected in the form of higher prices). 2) There are 3 possibilities to tax: income, consumption, assets (property).
We tax the wrong thing, income instead of consumption. So start with a blank page (like the Fair Tax did), create a national sales tax. And here's a novel idea: WE CAN MODIFY IF NECESSARY AS WE GO BASED ON EXPERIENCE. Naysayers seem to want all the answers guaranteed up front - can't happen. Naysayers say if it's modified we'll just end up where we are today all over again to which I say SO WHAT? If it takes 90 years to make a mess of the Fair Tax, we'll just start all over again in 90 years!
Posted on January 5 at 10:41 a.m.
gee, maybe criticism is rare because it's actually a well thought out and researched economic proposal ???
Page 1 of 1
Posted on February 13 at 7:36 a.m.
"The federal income tax code we have now isn’t perfect, but it could be cleaned up and adjusted".
First, if it could be cleaned up and adjusted, why hasn't it already been done ???
Second, you're naive about both the Fair Tax AND the status quo tax code. Here's a quote from someone who knows/knew the tax code a lot better than any of us:
"Eight decades of amendments... to [the] code have produced a virtually impenetrable maze... The rules are unintelligible to most citizens... The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are charged with administering and enforcing the law".
-Shirley Peterson, Former IRS Commissioner, April 14, 1993 at Southern Methodist University
And that was 15 years ago when the tax code was "merely" 30,000 pages !!!
On Forget the “Fair Tax,” there are better options