Fairtax sounds great until you read the goofy fine print. Fairtax is a Koch Brother funded fraud. It's not a retail sales tax -- that is only a small fraction of it. 80% of Fairtax has NOTHING TO DO WITH RETAIL SALES.
That's right, 4/5 of Fairtax has nothing to do with retail sales tax. Look at their fine print. These goof balls ALSO tax all military spending, pensions, wages. They also tax all cancer surgery and nursing home care.. See their "tax base". Look at their fine print.
I don't like this plan...I would rather a sales tax that excludes food, medicine, shelter, and items for resale or raw goods. Think about it, people at the median spend 97% of their disposable income on the necessities of life...my plan would not only give people their money back but it would lower the effective tax rate for anyone just trying to survive.
Highways are paid for through direct taxes, that is completely legitimate. Paul never said anything to the effect that highways were a mistake, he alluded to the fact that even Eisenhower had respect for the Constitution by saying highways was linked to National Defense...now nobody even bothers to check their plans against the Constitution.
I didn't hear the entire exchange, but the word "mistake" is not in the contained quote. Perhaps that is the ABC News writers word. You can confer it from Paul's comment, however.
I doubt Paul ever used the term "mistake" to describe the federal highway system. Paul might have said that the federal government has no Constitutional authority to build a highway system, and that is undeniably true
Fairtax sounds great until you read the goofy fine print. Fairtax is a Koch Brother funded fraud. It's not a retail sales tax -- that is only a small fraction of it. 80% of Fairtax has NOTHING TO DO WITH RETAIL SALES.
That's right, 4/5 of Fairtax has nothing to do with retail sales tax. Look at their fine print. These goof balls ALSO tax all military spending, pensions, wages. They also tax all cancer surgery and nursing home care.. See their "tax base". Look at their fine print.
12FlyMe 3 months ago
There is a related article at newcolonist-dot-com
newcolonist 3 months ago
Sorry, highways don't pay for themselves.
newcolonist 3 months ago
I don't like this plan...I would rather a sales tax that excludes food, medicine, shelter, and items for resale or raw goods. Think about it, people at the median spend 97% of their disposable income on the necessities of life...my plan would not only give people their money back but it would lower the effective tax rate for anyone just trying to survive.
imatruthaddict 3 months ago
Highways are paid for through direct taxes, that is completely legitimate. Paul never said anything to the effect that highways were a mistake, he alluded to the fact that even Eisenhower had respect for the Constitution by saying highways was linked to National Defense...now nobody even bothers to check their plans against the Constitution.
imatruthaddict 3 months ago
I didn't hear the entire exchange, but the word "mistake" is not in the contained quote. Perhaps that is the ABC News writers word. You can confer it from Paul's comment, however.
newcolonist 3 months ago
I doubt Paul ever used the term "mistake" to describe the federal highway system. Paul might have said that the federal government has no Constitutional authority to build a highway system, and that is undeniably true
anphernie 3 months ago