Republicans offer fraudulent tax reform, the alleged FairTax

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Saturday January 14, 2023

"Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., reintroduced a bill Monday that would replace the current federal tax structure with a national consumption tax and lead to the elimination of the Internal Revenue Service.

Carter first introduced the Fair Tax Act in January 2021, but it failed to make it out of the Ways and Means Committee. His action comes on the heels of the House voting 221-201 on Monday night to rescind funding for the hiring of 87,000 additional IRS agents stipulated under the Inflation Reduction Act, which became law last year."

What Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., avoid telling their constituents is, the FairTax, which they are trying to shove down the throats of the American people . .


  • creates an entirely new tax,
  • creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive which will also be collecting taxes.
  • keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect excise taxes calculated from incomes alive,
  • requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year,
  • requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to sell the property each has in their own labor,
  • requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government.
  • requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up,
  • and creates a new entitlement, the Family Consumption Allowance [a monthly government check sent to every family in the U.S.] that would become another wedge issue used during election time to buy votes.


Why on earth would any “conservative” politician support this rope-a-dope proposal which enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks?
If Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., are really determined to offer meaningful federal tax reform, they would introduce the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows:

“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.


NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!

JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people
 
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the beauty of the fair tax: Everyone pays, including illegals, pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers- the people freeloading now


The only "beauty" behind the alleged FairTax is, it enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks. And that is not the kind of "beauty" the American people need.
 
SEE House Bill Would Reform Tax Code, Eliminate IRS

Saturday January 14, 2023



What Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., avoid telling their constituents is, the FairTax, which they are trying to shove down the throats of the American people . .


  • creates an entirely new tax,
  • creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive which will also be collecting taxes.
  • keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect excise taxes calculated from incomes alive,
  • requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year,
  • requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to sell the property each has in their own labor,
  • requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government.
  • requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up,
  • and creates a new entitlement, the Family Consumption Allowance [a monthly government check sent to every family in the U.S.] that would become another wedge issue used during election time to buy votes.


Why on earth would any “conservative” politician support this rope-a-dope proposal which enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks?
If Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., are really determined to offer meaningful federal tax reform, they would introduce the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows:

“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.


NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!

JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people
New ways of collecting taxes doesn't help anything. All it does is change the mix of winners and losers.

The only real tax reform is for the frigging government to drastically reduce spending and to lower taxes accordingly.

It is not how they collect but how much.
 
Every "fair tax" scheme ever is an effort to shift the tax burden down the economic ladder.

I think our Founders original tax plan is what we should return to. Have you ever checked out THE FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins:


“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.


NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!
JWK
When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.
 
I like the idea of consumption taxes but they should be included on things like services and stock transfers to keep there from being as big of a void left behind by no income taxes. They should also be phased in over time.

Yes they are regressive yada yada yada but when half of America pays no taxes pretty much anything different is regressive
 

Reason article misrepresents the alleged FairTax, H.R.25.​


SEE: House Republicans Want a Vote On the FairTax. Is It Worth Supporting?

“The bill would overhaul the nation’s entire tax code, scrapping all federal taxes in favor of the FairTax, a 23 percent national retail sales tax.”

That is not true! There are a number of other taxes which will still be collected if the FairTax is adopted. See the The Fair Tax Act which creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive which will also be collecting taxes.


In addition, See Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911) which confirms under Congress' power to lay and collect "excise" taxes, it can and has imposed an excise tax which calculates the amount of tax to be paid from "income", i.e., profits and/or gains. The court stated:

The Corporation Tax, as imposed by Congress in the Tariff Act of 1909, is not a direct tax, but an excise; it does not fall within the apportionment clause of the Constitution, but is within, and complies with, the provision for uniformity throughout the United States; it is an excise on the privilege of doing business in a corporate capacity,

There is nothing in the FairTax Act repealing Congress' power to lay and collect countless "excise" taxes calculated from incomes. But the Act, if adopted, does create the new “Excise Tax Bureau,” which is necessary to collect all the new excise taxes Congress dreams up in addition to the new 23 % FairTax.
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JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people.
 
SEE House Bill Would Reform Tax Code, Eliminate IRS

Saturday January 14, 2023



What Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., avoid telling their constituents is, the FairTax, which they are trying to shove down the throats of the American people . .


  • creates an entirely new tax,
  • creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive which will also be collecting taxes.
  • keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect excise taxes calculated from incomes alive,
  • requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year,
  • requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to sell the property each has in their own labor,
  • requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government.
  • requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up,
  • and creates a new entitlement, the Family Consumption Allowance [a monthly government check sent to every family in the U.S.] that would become another wedge issue used during election time to buy votes.


Why on earth would any “conservative” politician support this rope-a-dope proposal which enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks?
If Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., are really determined to offer meaningful federal tax reform, they would introduce the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows:

“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.


NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!

JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people
Isn't changing the system reform?
 
SEE House Bill Would Reform Tax Code, Eliminate IRS

Saturday January 14, 2023



What Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., avoid telling their constituents is, the FairTax, which they are trying to shove down the throats of the American people . .


  • creates an entirely new tax,
  • creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive which will also be collecting taxes.
  • keeps Congress’ power to lay and collect excise taxes calculated from incomes alive,
  • requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year,
  • requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to sell the property each has in their own labor,
  • requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government.
  • requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up,
  • and creates a new entitlement, the Family Consumption Allowance [a monthly government check sent to every family in the U.S.] that would become another wedge issue used during election time to buy votes.


Why on earth would any “conservative” politician support this rope-a-dope proposal which enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks?
If Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., and Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., are really determined to offer meaningful federal tax reform, they would introduce the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows:

“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed, and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.


NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!

JWK

When Federal Reserve Notes were made a legal tender in violation of our Constitution, and a direct un-apportioned tax was imposed upon the people without their consent, America’s free enterprise, free market system was subjugated, and the tools of oppression were made available to some very immoral and nefariously evil people
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The only "beauty" behind the alleged FairTax is, it enlarges and strengthens the federal government’s iron grip around the American people’s necks. And that is not the kind of "beauty" the American people need.

It's always just a scam to shift the tax burden down to the lower end of the food chain as usual, while letting unearned incomes and assorted gambling scams in stock and futures markets go tax free. Every single one of them has been exactly that and anybody who actually reads the latest one will find the exact same thing.
 

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