Mike Gravel and the Fair Tax
desandrews
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I debated sticking this onto another thread but feel it's unique enough to warrant its own.
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http://www.gravel2008.us/?q=fair_tax
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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MIKE GRAVEL IS FOR REAL TAX REFORM:
ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX AND THE IRS
SET UP A PROGRESSIVE SALES TAX
It’s called a FAIR TAX.
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Our income tax code is riddled with exceptions and incentives that the 30,000 lobbyists in Washington have secured and continue to secure for their clients. Little wonder the code is incomprehensible and has a compliance cost to the private sector of $270 billion a year.
After serving eight years on the Senate Finance Committee, my choice to meet the fairness criteria is to junk the income tax with all its exceptions, close the IRS, and establish a sales tax––without exceptions.
Much demagoguery swirls around issues of taxation:
“Soak the rich” is one approach, but it never happens regardless of whether the liberals or conservatives hold political power. The wealthy have the money to game the system.
“Tax the corporations” is another approach, but corporate taxes are built into the cost of products or services, so consumers are actually paying those taxes, too. It’s a hidden sales tax.
I subscribe to a sales tax system, most of which is included in what is called the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax meets the fairness criteria: simplicity, transparency and no exceptions.
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http://www.gravel2008.us/?q=fair_tax
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DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MIKE GRAVEL IS FOR REAL TAX REFORM:
ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX AND THE IRS
SET UP A PROGRESSIVE SALES TAX
It’s called a FAIR TAX.
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...an excerpt...
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Our income tax code is riddled with exceptions and incentives that the 30,000 lobbyists in Washington have secured and continue to secure for their clients. Little wonder the code is incomprehensible and has a compliance cost to the private sector of $270 billion a year.
After serving eight years on the Senate Finance Committee, my choice to meet the fairness criteria is to junk the income tax with all its exceptions, close the IRS, and establish a sales tax––without exceptions.
Much demagoguery swirls around issues of taxation:
“Soak the rich” is one approach, but it never happens regardless of whether the liberals or conservatives hold political power. The wealthy have the money to game the system.
“Tax the corporations” is another approach, but corporate taxes are built into the cost of products or services, so consumers are actually paying those taxes, too. It’s a hidden sales tax.
I subscribe to a sales tax system, most of which is included in what is called the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax meets the fairness criteria: simplicity, transparency and no exceptions.
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WOW.
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The Congress will never enact such a radical reform because it dilutes their power to control and focus the economy to accomplish social goals and ,of course, limits their ability of Congress to reward their special-interest friends who donate money to their political campaigns. In my judgment, Americans will have to vote to enact the National Initiative, becoming legislators like their elected lawmakers, in order to make the Fair Tax the law of the land. (http://www.NationalInitiative.us)
So fucked they are and fucked they will remain...until someone with a head and decent amount of brain matter digs them out of their blind little misery holes...
Thinking of those individuals reminds me of the Team America World Police theme song... I love that song...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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