92 votes
IRS! Institute the Fair Tax.
The Fair Tax will eliminate all tax for the poor and eliminate all tax breaks for the rich, while eliminating almost all enforcement costs! Sounds lke a no brainer to me!
The Fair Tax will eliminate all tax for the poor and eliminate all tax breaks for the rich, while eliminating almost all enforcement costs! Sounds lke a no brainer to me!
HeckRuler
vontrapp, if you get Ron Paul to admend it, then that's one problem down. But "we can admend it" hardly fill me with confidence. It still puts the majority of the burden on the middle-class, doles out welfare, rewards black markets and buying foreign! Unless you want some sort of tariff. That worked out swell in 1930.
What about stuff on Ebay? Garage Sales? Too many holes and grey areas.
8 days ago
vontrapp
HeckRuler, allright, consumerism is exactly the problem with our economy today. Oh, and we could amend the thing to include services.
18 days ago
HeckRuler
FairTax is interesting. It has one nice effect. It will kill consummerism.
It has a lot of bad. The wealthy will become rediculously wealthy. It gives unending handouts to the poor. The real burden is on the middle-class, the traditional consumers.
One big issue I have with it is that services aren't taxed. This is a MASSIVE LOOPHOLE! I didn't buy that from him, I paid him to make it.
23 days ago
bshanks
i've heard that under the current system the rich get so many tax loopholes that they would actually pay more under a flat tax! in theory i would prefer a progressive tax scheme, but i don't trust politicians to keep out tax loopholes unless the system is ridiculously simple. so perhaps in practice this would be the most progressive scheme.
23 days ago
NoGovNoTax
Equally percentage wise on spending. What's wrong with this? Nothing. Not a republican idea. A non-partisan idea.The Poor is untaxed. What do they care after that? Middle Class will save more money under the fairtax system. Yes some will actually be taxed. Why? They make more money, and the rich will pay more into it then all of us. I could care less how much you or anybody else "Earns".
24 days ago
snesich
How do I SUBTRACT votes from this awful, Republican idea? Any tax system that takes equally from billionaires and average income people is dumb, counterproductive and very conservative. This is a Fools Gold "idea" that sounds good until you look into it. Every nation in the world uses a progressive tax system, unless they're a backward place or a dictatorship. Don't fall for a "Flat Tax" scheme.
27 days ago