Nada y Todo » fair tax http://nadaytodo.com A Healthy Dose of Political Commentary Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:30:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Time to Rid Ourselves of the IRS and Income Tax http://nadaytodo.com/2009/02/time-to-rid-ourselves-of-the-irs-and-income-tax/ http://nadaytodo.com/2009/02/time-to-rid-ourselves-of-the-irs-and-income-tax/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:32:08 +0000 Matt http://nadaytodo.com/?p=119 Uncle Same Wants Your Taxes!Republican Representative, John Linder, and forty four other Representatives have introduced H.R. 25: Fair Tax Act of 2009.  In short this piece of legislation who get rid of the Federal Income Tax as well as the IRS, and would use a flat rate sales tax that’s imposed by each individual state.  Not only does this make sense, but it’s also a win-win situation, it removes the tiered, complicated Income Tax system, reduces government spending by ridding ourselves of the IRS, and finally delegates the roll of collection to individual states. We get rid of the sham known as the IRS and fall back more on the 10th Amendment, who could argue?

For one, the left will be the first to play the “Burdens the Low Income Families” card.  However once said card is played, it can be instantly rebutted by pointing out that said liberanazi should read Chapter 3 of the Bill and also reminding them that the majority of states in the US do not place an income tax on unprepared food and prescription medication, the only two neccesities of life that are purchased in such a way that a tax might be applicable. These two justifications completely null the “progressive” argument against a fair tax.

Furthermore, this bill would also be a key in dealing with the problem of illegal immigration milking our public systems.  Illegal immigrants in this country have a very large amount of purchasing power and disposable income, however as of now very few pay a tax of any kind.  By implying a flat rate sales tax on goods purchased these illegal immigrants will now also be contributing taxes to our governments coffers.

As anyone reading this should be able to tell, I vehemently support a flat rate sales tax that applies to all who make purchases.  It’s fair, it makes sense, and most importantly it rids us of yet another government agency.  Contact your local represeantives so we can hopefully see this bill make progress.

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