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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 320517" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>How can you extoll the evils of the progressive income tax, a plank of the communist manifesto if you will, and how we should not be under such a tax scheme but then you turn around and demand a segment of society outside it's bounds so to speak be made to pay it? By adding more bodies to the system, you in effect strenghten it's hold on you. Instead of propping up that system, you should vote for the people who propose and have ideas to not only end the tax system itself but also the underlying welfare state that sucks to economic lifeblood from you. While the do-gooders so to speak decry the rich for not paying their fair share, you join the chorus of the opposite decrying the entitlement class is not paying enough, Sitting in the middle is the tax class who win no matter which side prevails and you still lose.</p><p> </p><p>As nice a the fair tax might seem I still oppose because of the underlying principle that a central gov't authority when given the power to tax will in the end abuse such authority and become counter-productive to the economic wellbeing of society as a whole. Why work feverishly to make these people taxpayers when the real goal is to end the welfare state to begin with and to free all of us from the excessive tax burden. That's the trick bag we've gotten ourselves into.</p><p> </p><p>Ronald Reagan extolled the evils of federal taxation and especially the income tax but then with the TEFRA Tax Act he made a major shift in which IMO he compromised the principle of limited federal power via taxation and just began the process that ended in 86' with the new tax code that lowered the tax rates which put everyone back to sleep. Fair Tax does the same and IMHO taxing the entitlement class, as fair as that may seem, again embeds the idea that federal taxation of income is the only way it works.</p><p> </p><p>JMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 320517, member: 2189"] How can you extoll the evils of the progressive income tax, a plank of the communist manifesto if you will, and how we should not be under such a tax scheme but then you turn around and demand a segment of society outside it's bounds so to speak be made to pay it? By adding more bodies to the system, you in effect strenghten it's hold on you. Instead of propping up that system, you should vote for the people who propose and have ideas to not only end the tax system itself but also the underlying welfare state that sucks to economic lifeblood from you. While the do-gooders so to speak decry the rich for not paying their fair share, you join the chorus of the opposite decrying the entitlement class is not paying enough, Sitting in the middle is the tax class who win no matter which side prevails and you still lose. As nice a the fair tax might seem I still oppose because of the underlying principle that a central gov't authority when given the power to tax will in the end abuse such authority and become counter-productive to the economic wellbeing of society as a whole. Why work feverishly to make these people taxpayers when the real goal is to end the welfare state to begin with and to free all of us from the excessive tax burden. That's the trick bag we've gotten ourselves into. Ronald Reagan extolled the evils of federal taxation and especially the income tax but then with the TEFRA Tax Act he made a major shift in which IMO he compromised the principle of limited federal power via taxation and just began the process that ended in 86' with the new tax code that lowered the tax rates which put everyone back to sleep. Fair Tax does the same and IMHO taxing the entitlement class, as fair as that may seem, again embeds the idea that federal taxation of income is the only way it works. JMO [/QUOTE]
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