I want to join the ranks of the unemployed. As another tax season is upon us, it's time we got serious about the only fair and equitable method of taxation...a national sales tax. I see the farm laborers working in this country and paying no taxes because they are employed as H-2 employees and therefore not subject to taxes on wages. Yet, these same farm workers have children in our schools and drive on our roads. A flat tax would still allow loopholes, require personal tax filings, and IRS employees. A national sales tax means EVERYONE would be treated equally. Lower income people would pay the same tax, but contribute less as they have less money to spend. Wealthier people would pay the same tax, but contribute more because they would be spending more money. There would be no exemptions, and no reductions for items over “X” amount of dollars, simply a set tax on that item based on it’s sales price. While initially I thought of only eliminating the federal income tax by instituting a national sales tax of 3-5%, there is an interesting book called “The Fair Tax Book” co-written by Congressman John Linder. In that book he shows how a national retail sales tax of 23% on NEW goods and services would allow the replacement, not reform, of federal income taxes including, personal, estate, gift, capital gains, gasoline, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes. Under his plan, you’d only pay tax on new goods...used or “previously owned” goods would not be taxable. Again it is fair and equitable to everyone, including those people currently not paying anything due to loopholes. A national sales tax might put me in the unemployment line, but after decades of dealing with the IRS over petty issues and seeing the loopholes special interest groups take advantage of, I’ll be a Wal-mart greeter just to get rid of this lopsided system we currently have. Here is the site dedicated to bring awareness in this country, no matter what your political affiliation, to how unfair our current method of taxation is. view link If you cannot reach it directly, to go fairtax.org. Take a look and let's put the IRS out of business.
Elimination of the income tax
posted about 1 year ago, updated 2 minutes later
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- 1. about 1 year ago MMXII1221 wrote:
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i'm certainly glad you're giving some thoughts to re-structuring our current tax system. i'm not sure at all what new ideas are floating around out there but some kind of change seems necessary. about your 23% concept- i am wondering, you said only NEW goods and services. so, if i have an old house that has been sold before in the past and someone buys it from me for $8 million dollars, they owe no tax? or i own a corporation that has been owned before by various individuals and i sell it for $334 million, then the buyer has to pay no tax? about the "service" side of this issue- is there any such thing as an "old" service? i thought all service was new? thanks
- 2. about 1 year ago vamunchkin wrote:
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If you look at the website linked, according to the Congressman who has submitted this bill every year, with a 23% national sales tax, you would only have to tax "new" goods. To re-tax a previously taxed item is not necessary, as the 23% would provide enough annual revenue to eliminate not only the federal income tax, but social security tax, estate taxes, excise taxes, gasoline taxes, etc. People freak out when they hear 23%, however, if the look at their paycheck and see how much is taken from them every week, and realize that those deductions would no longer be necessary, they would see how much more they would gain in the long run. We complain about the high cost of gasoline, but most of the cost is in the tax we pay on each gallon. The average person would have not taxes to file every year, thus eliminating most of the IRS, as a greatly reduced staff could handle the monthly sales tax filings by businesses. We have national elections coming in 2008 and if everyone looked at this seriously, and flooded their congressmen and senators with demands for a national sales tax, we, the people, might finally be able to take back control of our country and turn it back into the Republic our forefathers founded. Thank you dustyattic for the interest.
- 3. about 1 year ago MMXII1221 wrote:
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the reason "we, the people" cannot and do not run this country is quite elementary- "we" are not united. if we were united we could create any type of government we wished. we could pass any type of laws we wanted. you get enough signatures on something and it comes up for a vote. you have a majority of voters behind an issue and it becomes law. America is set up in a way that would allow "we, the people" to write their own rules and to design their own destiny. i repeat, the reason "we, the people" do not rule is because we are not united. we are divided- a house divided cannot stand. what is it that could bring us all together?
